Efeito do inibidor de serino-proteases, berenil, sobre a eficiência alimentar, atividade proteolítica e desenvolvimento pós-embrionário de Anticarsia gemmatalis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Lílian Fernandes
• Orientador(a): Oliveira, Maria Goreti de Almeida
• Banca de defesa: Andrade, Milton Hércules Guerra de , Guia, Thiago Rennó dos Mares
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Entomologia
• Departamento: Ciência entomológica; Tecnologia entomológica
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Anticarsia gemmatalis; Soja; Enzimas digestivas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Anticarsia gemmatalis; Soybean; Digestive enzymes
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BIOQUIMICA::ENZIMOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3870

Protease inhibitors can reduce the digestive efficiency, to delay the development and to diminish the insect proteolytic activity resulting in increase of mortality through deficiency of free amino acids for maintenance of vital functions. The subject of this work were to evaluate if A. gemmatalis larvae feeding in artificial diets containing increasing concentrations of synthetic trypsin inhibitor bisbenzamidine affects negatively the insect performance, reduce the alimentary consumption, the digestibility, the assimilation efficiency of the food ingested and digested, the insect proteolytic activity and protein digestibility. To test these hypotheses were realized bioassays with individualized caterpillars and supplied daily with diets containing 0; 0,00095; 0,0019; 0,0038; 0,0076; 0,0152; 0,0304; 0,0608; 0,0912; 0,125 e 0,25% (w/w) of berenil during the entire larval phase. The digestion indices, the duration of larval phase and life cycle, the accumulated survival and the average of time survival, the pupae and adults weight, the body and wings of the adults moths were determined. Additionally, were evaluated the protein digestibility and the enzymatic activity of midgut extracts of A. gemmatalis exposed to berenil in diet, in the same concentrations above. All parameters assessed of life history were negatively affected with the increase of inhibitors in diet. Were verified an increase in the larval phase and life cycle duration, reduction in the pupae weight and body and wings length. There was reduction in the incorporated biomass and the relative growth rate. Otherwise, there were increases in ingestion, approximated digestion, and relative diet consumption rate and in the ingestion and excretion balance. The diet individual consumption increased until the 0.0076% of berenil, diminished with the increase of inhibitor concentration. The protein digestibility was directly proportional to berenil concentration while the proteolytic, amidolytic and esterolytic activities diminished with the increasing of inhibitor concentration. Therefore, albeit the berenil mixed in increasing concentrations in diet affects negatively in all life history parameters of insect, the caterpillars improve the diet intake. However, even so the total digestibility and the protein digestibility increase in higher inhibitor concentrations, the insect show lower enzymatic activity and, consequently, reduction in the efficiency in assimilation of ingested and digested food, indicating that the insect did not show adaptative mechanisms to prevent the inhibition of tripsina-like enzymes existents in your digestive tract. Thus, the berenil is a promising strategy to new studies with the subject of to synthesis mimicry peptides to apply in the field to control A. gemmatalis caterpillars in the soybean crops.