Insect resistance to Bt crops: evidence versus theory

By B. Tabashnik, A. Gassmann, David Crowder, Y. Carrière. Nature Biotechnology, 2008

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Current control methods for diamondback moth and other brassica insect pests and the prospects for improved management with lepidopteran-resistant Bt vegetable brassicas in Asia and Africa (2010, neutral): “(Tabashnik et al., 2008).”
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops: 2006. (2006, background): “Managing resistance in insect pests will always be a challenge but studies in the University of Arizona led by Tabashnik concluded that “the picture is rosier than expected” (Tabashnik et al. 2008).”
Insect pathogens as biological control agents: Back to the future. (2015, background): “…Bt microbial pesticides, Bt crops also are 942 susceptible to resistance problems and a number of cases have been reported, particularly with 943 first generation single gene constructs (Rhaman et al., 2004, Shelton et al., 2007; Tabashnik, 944 2008; Tabashnik et al., 2008a, 2008b, 2009, 2013).”
Discovery and Characterization of Field Resistance to Bt Maize: Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Puerto Rico (2010, background): “Resistance to Cry1Ac in corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in the United States seems to have evolved in response to Þeld use of Cry1Ac-producing Bt cotton (Tabashnik et al. 2008, but see Moar et al. 2008 for alternative interpretations of the Þndings).”
Success of the high‐dose/refuge resistance management strategy after 15 years of Bt crop use in North America (2011, background): “In a rather unfortunate confusion of terminology, Tabashnik et al. (2008, 2009) focused on ‘field-evolved resistance,’ which is defined as an increase in resistance frequency in a naturally occurring population.”
Resistance to Bt Maize in Busseola fusca (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Vaalharts, South Africa (2011, background): “Discussion Evolution of resistance is deÞned as a heritable decrease in a populationÕs susceptibility to a toxin (Tabashnik 1994, Tabashnik et al. 2008b), Gassmann et al. 2009).”
From microbial sprays to insect-resistant transgenic plants: history of the biospesticide Bacillus thuringiensis. A review (2011, positive): “However, the recent discovery that the frequency of resistance alleles to the Cry1Ac toxin in transgenic Bt cotton has increased substantially in some field populations of the Corn Earworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), stands as a reminder that Bt resistance must be closely monitored and managed (Tabas”
Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal three-domain Cry toxins: mode of action, insect resistance and consequences for crop protection. (2013, background): “It has been shown that insects can develop resistance to Bt toxins in the laboratory and to Bt sprays in the field (Ferré & Van Rie, 2002; Janmaat & Myers, 2003; Tabashnik et al., 2008; Kruger et al., 2009; Storer et al., 2010; Dhurua & Gujar, 2011; Gassmann et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2011).”
Bacillus thuringiensis: A story of a successful bioinsecticide. (2011, background): “In recent years, at least four cases of resistance to Bt crops have been documented, H. zea to Bt-cotton expressing Cry1Ac in United States (Tabashnik et al., 2008), S. frugiperda to Bt-corn expressing Cry1F in Puerto Rico (Storer et al., 2010), Busseola fusca to Bt-corn expressing Insect Biochem Mo”
Field-Evolved Resistance to Bt Maize by Western Corn Rootworm (2011, background): “Thus, as the area planted to refuge decreases or resistance becomes more dominant, pests are predicted to evolve resistance more quickly [11,12].”