Inheritance of Methomyl Resistance in the Tobacco Budworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 78 (5) , 1020-1022
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/78.5.1020
Abstract
A methomyl-resistant strain of Heliothis virescens (F.) was collected from cotton in Mexico during 1981. After one generation of laboratory selection, this strain showed about 41,000- to 65,000-fold resistance, depending on the weight of the third instars tested. Larvae that weighed 12–21 mg were harder to kill than those weighing 22–29 mg at the doses tested. Resistance appears to be due to a single autosomal incompletely dominant gene.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Weight Versus Toxicity: a Need for Revision of the Standard Method of Testing for Resistance of the Tobacco Budworm to Insecticides1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1982