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BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 175-181Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485308006226
Keywords
Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner); Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry1Ac; resistance; cadherin; fitness costs
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB109204]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30571233]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2007AA10Z420]
- 111 project [1307030]
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A disrupted allele (r(1)) of a cadherin gene (Ha_BtR) is genetically associated with incompletely recessive resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry1Ac in a Cry1Ac-selected strain (GYBT) of Helicoverpa armigera. The r(1) allele of Ha_BtR was introgressed into a susceptible SCD strain by crossing the GYBT strain to the SCID strain, followed by repeated backcrossing to the SCID strain and molecular marker assisted family selection. The introgressed strain (designated as SCD-r1, carrying homozygous r(1) allele) obtained 438-fold resistance to Cry1Ac, >41-fold resistance to Cry1Aa and 31-fold resistance Cry1Ab compared with the SCD strain; however, there was no significant difference in susceptibility to Cry2Aa between the integrated and parent strains. It confirms that the loss of function mutation of Ha_BtR alone can confer medium to high levels of resistance to the three Cry1A toxins in H. armigera. Reciprocal crosses between the SCD and SCD-r1 strains showed that resistance to Cry1Ac in the SCD-r1 strain was completely recessive. Life tables of the SCID and SCD-r1 strains on artificial diet in the laboratory were constructed, and results showed that the net replacement rate (R-0) did not differ between the strains. The toxicity of two chemical insecticides, fenvalerate and monocrotophos, against the SCD-r1 strain was not significantly different from that to the SCD strain. However, larval development time of the SCD-r1 strain was significantly longer than that of the SCID strain, indicating a fitness cost of slower larval growth is associated with Ha_BtR disruption in H. armigera.
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