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1 December 2004 Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac Toxin in a Greenhouse-Derived Strain of Cabbage Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Wendy C. Kain, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Alida F. Janmaat, Judith Myers, Anthony M. Shelton, Ping Wang
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Abstract

A population of cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), collected from commercial greenhouses in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada, in 2001 showed a resistance level of 24-fold to Dipel, a product of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) subspecies kurstaki. This population was selected with Cry1Ac, the major Bt Cry toxin in Dipel, to obtain a homogenous population resistant to Cry1Ac. The resulting strain of T. ni, named GLEN-Cry1Ac, was highly resistant to Cry1Ac with a resistance ratio of ≈1000-fold. The larvae from the GLEN-Cry1Ac strain could survive on Cry1Ac-expressing transgenic broccoli plants that were highly insecticidal to T. ni and diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.). The inheritance of Cry1Ac resistance in this T. ni strain was autosomal and incompletely recessive. The degree of dominance of the resistance was −0.402 and −0.395, respectively, for the neonates in reciprocal crosses between the GLEN-Cry1Ac and a laboratory strain of T. ni. Using χ2 goodness-of-fit test, we demonstrated that the inhibition of larval growth resulting from testing 12 toxin doses in the progeny of the backcross fit the predicted larval responses based on a monogenic inheritance model. Therefore, we conclude that the inheritance of the resistance to Cry1Ac in the T. ni larvae is monogenic.

Wendy C. Kain, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Alida F. Janmaat, Judith Myers, Anthony M. Shelton, and Ping Wang "Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac Toxin in a Greenhouse-Derived Strain of Cabbage Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 97(6), 2073-2078, (1 December 2004). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493-97.6.2073
Received: 28 April 2004; Accepted: 1 September 2004; Published: 1 December 2004
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KEYWORDS
Bacillus thuringiensis
Cry1Ac
resistance
transgenic plants
Trichoplusia ni
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