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EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 2-4, Pages 161-172Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-021-00668-6
Keywords
Molecular diagnostics; Target-site resistance; Acequinocyl; Q(o) inhibitor; Maternal inheritance
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- BOF post-doctoral fellowship (Ghent University) [01P03420]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [ERC] [772026-POLYADAPT, 773902-SuperPests]
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Genetic variants of the cd1- and ef-helices of mitochondrial cytochrome b have been linked to bifenazate resistance in spider mites, but the G126S substitution alone is not sufficient to confer resistance according to toxicity bioassays.
Several genetic variants of the cd1- and ef-helices of the Q(o) site of mitochondrial cytochrome b have been associated with bifenazate resistance in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae, an important crop pest around the world. Maternal inheritance of bifenazate resistance has provided strong evidence for the involvement of many of these mutations alone or in combination. A number of populations highly resistant to bifenazate were uncovered that carried the G126S substitution in combination with other target-site mutations. This G126S mutation has therefore been investigated in several studies in the context of resistance evolution and the development of diagnostic markers. However, experimental data that link bifenazate resistance with the presence of the G126S mutation without additional cd1- and ef-helices mutations, remain very limited. Here, we genotyped 38 T. urticae field populations for cytochrome b and uncovered nine field populations with a fixed or segregating G126S substitution without other target-site mutations in the conserved cd1- and ef-helices of the cytochrome b Q(o) pocket. Toxicity bioassays showed that all nine field populations were very susceptible to bifenazate, providing strong evidence that G126S alone does not confer bifenazate resistance. These findings also implicate that previous T. urticae populations with G126S found to be low to moderately resistant to bifenazate, evolved alternative mechanisms of resistance, and more importantly, that this mutation cannot be used as a molecular diagnostic for bifenazate resistance.
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