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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 114, Issue 6, Pages 2264-2270Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jee/toab170
Keywords
fall armyworm; Bt crop; baculovirus; life history trait
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- Rio Grande do Sul Research Support Foundation (FAPERGS) [9/2551-0001754-5]
- National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) [305464/2020-5, 304018/2019-8]
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The study revealed that the baculovirus-based biopesticide has significant pathogenic effects on fall armyworm, as well as causing sublethal effects on the insect, especially on Bt soybean.
Pathogenic assessment of a baculovirus-based biopesticide containing Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV: Baculoviridae: Alphabaculovirus) infecting fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is reported. In the bioassays, neonates were infected with different doses of SfMNPV applied on Cry1Ac Bt soybean and non-Bt soybean. Our findings indicated that S. frugiperda neonates did not survive at 10 d post infection or develop into adults on Bt and non-Bt soybean sprayed with the field recommended dose of SfMNPV. In contrast, a proportion of the infected neonates developed into adults when infected with lower doses of SfMNPV (50%, 25%, and 10% of field dose) in both Bt and non-Bt soybean. However, S. frugiperda neonates surviving infection at the lowest virus doses on both soybean varieties showed longer neonate-to-pupa and neonate-to-adult periods, lower larval and pupal weights, reduced fecundity, and increased population suppression. Nevertheless, more pronounced pathogenicity of SfMNPV infecting neonates of S. frugiperda were verified on larvae that developed on Bt soybean.These findings revealed that, beyond mortality, the biopesticide containing SfMNPV also causes significant sublethal pathogenic effects on neonates of S. frugiperda developing on Bt and non-Bt soybean and suggested an additive effect among SfMNPV and Cry1Ac insecticidal protein expressed in Bt soybean.
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