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PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 35-43Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/ps.4312
Keywords
Bt resistance; pleiotropic effects; fall armyworm; isogenic strains; life-history traits; intrinsic rate of population increase; resistance management
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- DuPont Young Professor Grant program
- National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
- CAPES Foundation
- PEC-PG System (Brazilian Ministry of Education)
- Minas Gerais State Foundation for Research Aid (FAPEMIG)
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BACKGROUNDThe presence of fitness costs of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal proteins in insect populations may delay or even reverse the local selection of insect resistance to Bt transgenic crops, and deserves rigorous investigation. Here we assessed the fitness costs associated with Cry1Fa resistance in two strains of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), derived from field collections in different Brazilian regions and further selected in the laboratory for high levels of resistance to Cry1Fa using leaves of TC1507 corn. RESULTSFitness components were compared using paired resistant and susceptible strains with similar genetic backgrounds and F-1 generations from reciprocal crosses, all of them reared on non-transgenic corn leaves. No apparent life history costs in the larval stage were observed in the Bt-resistant strains. Moreover, the resistance remained stable for seven generations in the absence of selection, with no decrease in the proportion of resistant individuals. Larval respiration rates were also similar between resistant and susceptible homozygotes, and heterozygotes displayed respiration rates and demographic performance equal or superior to those of susceptible homozygotes. CONCLUSIONIn combination, these results indicate the lack of strong fitness costs associated with resistance to Cry1Fa in the fall armyworm strains studied. These findings suggest that Cry1Fa resistance in S. frugiperda populations is unlikely to be counterselected in Cry1Fa-free environments. (c) 2016 Society of Chemical Industry
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