Sprayable RNAi for silencing of important genes to manage red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

• Muhammad Naeem Sattar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  * E-mail: mnsattar@kfu.edu.sa (MNS); jkhayri@kfu.edu.sa (JMA-K)

  Affiliation Central Laboratories, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8775-4934

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• Muhammad Nadir Naqqash,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Protection, MNS-University of Agriculture Multan, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0099-0679

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• Adel A. Rezk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

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• Khalid Mehmood,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Protection, MNS-University of Agriculture Multan, Multan, Pakistan

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• Allah Bakhsh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Hamadttu Elshafie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Date Palm Research Center of Excellence, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

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• Jameel M. Al-Khayri

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mnsattar@kfu.edu.sa (MNS); jkhayri@kfu.edu.sa (JMA-K)

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9507-0201

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