Degradation of sex pheromone and plant volatile components by an antennal glutathione S‐transferase in the oriental fruit moth,Grapholita molesta Busck (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Insect antennae have a primary function of perceiving and discerning odorant molecules including sex pheromones and host plant volatiles. The assumption that genes highly expressed in the antennae may have an olfactory‐related role associated with signal transduction. Here, one delta subfamily glutathione S ‐transferase (GST) gene (GmolGSTD1) was obtained from an antennal transcriptome of Grapholita molesta . Quantitative real‐time polymerase...