Aphids are globally important pests causing damage to a broad range of crops. Due to insecticide resistance, there is an urgent need to develop alternative control strategies. In our previous work, we found Pseudomonas fluorescens PpR24 can orally infect and kill the insecticide‐resistant green‐peach aphid ( Myzus persicae ). However, the genetic basis of the insecticidal capability of PpR24 remains unclear. Genome sequencing...

Many genes increase coding capacity by alternate exon usage. The gene encoding the insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ( nAChR ) α6 subunit, target of the bio‐insecticide spinosad, is one example of this and expands protein diversity via alternative splicing of mutually exclusive exons. Here, we show that spinosad resistance in the tomato leaf miner, Tuta absoluta is associated with aberrant regulation of splicing of Ta α...