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1 February 2008 Effect of Transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis Rice Lines on Mortality and Feeding Behavior of Rice Stem Borers (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
Hao Chen, Guoan Zhang, Qifa Zhang, Yongjun Lin
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Ten transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis Bt rice, Oryza sativa L., lines with different Bt genes (two Cry1Ac lines, three Cry2A lines, and five Cry9C lines) derived from the same variety Minghui 63 were evaluated in both the laboratory and the field. Bioassays were conducted by using the first instars of two main rice lepidopteran insect species: yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) and Asiatic rice borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker). All transgenic lines exhibited high toxicity to these two rice borers. Field evaluation results also showed that all transgenic lines were highly insect resistant with both natural infestation and manual infestation of the neonate larvae of S. incertulas compared with the nontransformed Minghui63. Bt protein concentrations in leaves of 10 transgenic rice lines were estimated by the sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The cry9C gene had the highest expression level, next was cry2A gene, and the cry1Ac gene expressed at the lowest level. The feeding behavior of 7-d-old Asiatic rice borer to three classes of Bt transgenic rice lines also was detected by using rice culm cuttings. The results showed that 7-d-old larvae of Asiatic rice borer have the capacity to distinguish Bt and non-Bt culm cuttings and preferentially fed on non-Bt cuttings. When only Bt culm cuttings with three classes of different Bt proteins (Cry1Ac, Cry2A, and Cry9C) were fed, significant distribution difference of 7-d-old Asiatic rice borer in culm cuttings of different Bt proteins also was found. In the current study, we evaluate different Bt genes in the same rice variety in both the laboratory and the field, and also tested feeding behavior of rice insect to these Bt rice. These data are valuable for the further development of two-toxin Bt rice and establishment of appropriate insect resistance management in the future.

Hao Chen, Guoan Zhang, Qifa Zhang, and Yongjun Lin "Effect of Transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis Rice Lines on Mortality and Feeding Behavior of Rice Stem Borers (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 101(1), 182-189, (1 February 2008). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493(2008)101[182:EOTBTR]2.0.CO;2
Received: 6 July 2006; Accepted: 7 September 2007; Published: 1 February 2008
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KEYWORDS
Bacillus thuringiensis
Cry1Ac
cry2A
cry9C
feeding behavior
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