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Submitted to: University of Missouri Diagnostic Clinic
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 7/23/1996 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: Biotechnology has produced a monumental method of controlling insects. A gene from Bacillus thuringeinsis (Bt) which is responsible for producing an insecticidal protein has been introduced into cotton, corn, and potato to control certain lepodoptera and beetles. Bt as an insecticide has been registered since 1961 and is one of the least hazardous and environmentally friendly insecticides available. The same is true for Bt transgenic plants. Target insects are controlled throughout the life of the plant. A major concern of the seed industry, the Environmental Proctection Agency, researchers, and extension people is to prevent or delay for as long as possible, the development of resistance by these insects. It is important that producers and the above-mentioned people (with an emphasis on extension personnel) work together with resistant prevention strategies. One strategy currently being advocated is refugia, more than on Bt gene or other protein genes included in the same cultivar and primarily Bt genes on native resistant genes. |
