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No evidence for change in oviposition behaviour of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) after widespread adoption of transgenic insecticidal cotton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2012

M.P. Zalucki ,
J.P. Cunningham ,
S. Downes ,
P. Ward ,
C. Lange ,
M. Meissle ,
N.A. Schellhorn  and
J.M. Zalucki
M.P. Zalucki*
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
J.P. Cunningham
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
S. Downes
Affiliation:
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabri, 2390, NSW
P. Ward
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
C. Lange
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
M. Meissle
Affiliation:
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Brisbane, 4001, Australia
N.A. Schellhorn
Affiliation:
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Brisbane, 4001, Australia
J.M. Zalucki
Affiliation:
School of Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, 4111, Australia
*
*Author for correspondence Fax: +61 7 33651655 E-mail: m.zalucki@uq.edu.au
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Abstract

Cotton growing landscapes in Australia have been dominated by dual-toxin transgenic Bt varieties since 2004. The cotton crop has thus effectively become a sink for the main target pest, Helicoverpa armigera. Theory predicts that there should be strong selection on female moths to avoid laying on such plants. We assessed oviposition, collected from two cotton-growing regions, by female moths when given a choice of tobacco, cotton and cabbage. Earlier work in the 1980s and 1990s on populations from the same geographic locations indicated these hosts were on average ranked as high, mid and low preference plants, respectively, and that host rankings had a heritable component. In the present study, we found no change in the relative ranking of hosts by females, with most eggs being laid on tobacco, then cotton and least on cabbage. As in earlier work, some females laid most eggs on cotton and aspects of oviposition behaviour had a heritable component. Certainly, cotton is not avoided as a host, and the implications of these finding for managing resistance to Bt cotton are discussed.

Keywords

source-sinkhost preferenceBt cottonHelicoverpa armigeranatural selection
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Research Paper
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 102 , Issue 4 , August 2012 , pp. 468 - 476
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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