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PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 279-282Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1169
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Nilaparvata lugens; imidacloprid; fitness costs; insecticide resistance
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Imidacloprid has been used as a key insecticide to control the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens St (a) over circlel, for several years, but no obvious resistance has been identified in field populations as yet. To evaluate the risk, a field population was collected and selected with imidacloprid in the laboratory. After 37-generation selection a strain with 250-fold resistance had been successfully achieved. Fitness analysis by constructing life tables demonstrated that resistant hoppers had obvious disadvantages in their reproduction. The fitness of highly resistant hoppers had decreased dramatically (0.169 and 0.104) to only one-fifth to one-tenth of that of the susceptible strain. Hence it was concluded that the brown planthopper had the potential to develop high resistance to imidacloprid but that the lower fitness of resistant hoppers could result in a quick recovery of sensitivity when the population did not come into contact with imidacloprid. This means that a reasonable resistance management programme with less imidacloprid use may efficiently delay or even stop resistance development. (c) 2006 Society of Chemical Industry
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