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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2005, p. 948-954, Vol. 71, No. 2
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.2.948-954.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Disruption of a Cadherin Gene Associated with Resistance to Cry1Ac {delta}-Endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis in Helicoverpa armigera

Xinjun Xu, Liangying Yu, and Yidong Wu*

Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Received 6 July 2004/ Accepted 29 August 2004

A laboratory strain (GY) of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) was established from surviving larvae collected from transgenic cotton expressing a Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki insecticidal protein (Bt cotton) in Gaoyang County, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China, in 2001. The GYBT strain was derived from the GY strain through 28 generations of selection with activated Cry1Ac delivered by diet surface contamination. When resistance to Cry1Ac in the GYBT strain increased to 564-fold after selection, we detected high levels of cross-resistance to Cry1Aa (103-fold) and Cry1Ab (>46-fold) in the GYBT strain with reference to those in the GY strain. The GYBT strain had a low level of cross-resistance to B. thuringiensis var. kurstaki formulation (Btk) (5-fold) and no cross-resistance to Cry2Aa (1.4-fold). Genetic analysis showed that Cry1Ac resistance in the GYBT strain was controlled by one autosomal and incompletely recessive gene. The cross-resistance pattern and inheritance mode suggest that the Cry1Ac resistance in the GYBT strain of H. armigera belongs to "mode 1," the most common type of lepidopteran resistance to B. thuringiensis toxins. A cadherin gene was cloned and sequenced from both the GY and GYBT strains. Disruption of the cadherin gene by a premature stop codon was associated with a high level of Cry1Ac resistance in H. armigera. Tight linkage between Cry1Ac resistance and the cadherin locus was observed in a backcross analysis. Together with previous evidence found with Heliothis virescens and Pectinophora gossypiella, our results confirmed that the cadherin gene is a preferred target for developing DNA-based monitoring of B. thuringiensis resistance in field populations of lepidopteran pests.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China. Phone and fax: 86-25-84396062. E-mail: wyd{at}njau.edu.cn.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2005, p. 948-954, Vol. 71, No. 2
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.2.948-954.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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