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BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 97, Issue 5, Pages 437-444Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S000748530700510X
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Diatraea saccharalis; Bt-maize; resistance monitoring; insecticide; resistance management
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A novel F-2 screening technique was developed for detecting resistance in sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F.), to transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)-maize expressing the Cry1Ab insecticidal protein. The F-2 screening method involved (i) collecting larvae from maize fields; (ii) establishing two-parent families; (iii) screening F-2 neonates for survival on Bt-maize leaf tissues; and (iv) confirming resistance on commercial Bt-maize plants. With the F-2 screening method, 213 isoline families of D. saccharalis were established from field collections in northeast Louisiana, USA and were screened for Bt resistance. One family was confirmed to carry a major Bt resistance allele(s). In a laboratory bioassay, larval mortality of the Bt-resistant D. saccharalis on Bt-maize leaf tissues was significantly lower than that of a Bt-susceptible strain. This Bt-resistant D. saccharalis population is the first corn stalk borer species that has completed larval development on commercial Bt-maize. The F-2 screening protocol developed in this study could be modified for detecting Bt resistance alleles in other similar corn stalk borers, such as the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), and the southwestern corn borer, D. grandiosella Dyar.
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