A NEW CELL LINE FROM LARVAL OVARIES OF SPODOPTERA LITURA (F.) (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)

摘要

Lepidopteran cell lines are finding application in the fields of agriculture and biotechnology (10). Therefore, there is a need to develop additional lepidopteran cell lines as substrate for recombinant baculoviruses and for baculovirus-expressed proteins (2,6). The insect cell line extensively used in baculovirus-expression-vector studies is from Spodoptera ftugiperda (9). Cell lines from a few other species of Spodoptera are also established (1,3,5), but no published report is yet available of a cell line from larval tissue of Spodoptera litura. In this report we describe the establishment of and characterize a new cell line derived from the larval ovaries of the tobacco cutworm, S. litura (F.).