Wednesday, 20 November 2002: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Floridian Ballroom B-C (Convention Center, Third Floor)

Insect Digestion: Potential Applications in Insect Management

Moderator(s): Brenda Oppert
Kelly Johnson
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:10 AM0876The control of insect digestion with peptide hormone
Dov Borovsky
8:40 AM0877Neuropeptide regulation of active ion transport in the larval Lepidopteran midgut
Kyeong-Yeoll Lee, Frank M. Horodyski, Mary E. Chamberlin
9:10 AM0878Effects of ingesting soybean trypsin inhibitor on Lepidoptera midgut proteinase gene expression
Sue Mazumdar-Leighton
9:40 AMBreak
10:00 AM0879Functional integrity of plant protease inhibitors in the insect midgut
Dominique Michaud, R. Anguenot, France Brunelle, Conrad Cloutier
10:30 AM0880Coevolution of insect trypsins and inhibitors
Adriana Rios Lopes, Maria Aparecida Juliano, Luis Juliano, Walter Ribeiro Terra
11:00 AM0881Phosphorus for growing larvae: Effects on growth and mechanisms of absorption and storage
H. Arthur Woods, Marc C. Perkins, James J. Elser, Jon F. Harrison
11:30 AMConcluding Remarks

The 2002 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition