According to the authors, five insects were acquired in the field, a resistance to insecticidal pro

Five insects - four Lepidoptera and Coleoptera (corn rootworm) - have developed resistance to insecticides Cry proteins (Bt) expressed in transgenic plants. This is a recent but rapid development of the acquisition of resistance to Bt insecticide in 2005, only one resistant insect was detected in the fields.
According to the authors, five insects were acquired in the field, a resistance to insecticidal proteins of the Cry family. Genetically modified (GM) plants concerned are corn and cotton grown in South Africa, India, and the United States.
A sixth case of resistance is also listed, again on Helicoverpa zea on cotton buy chafing dish but resistant to different Cry protein, Cry2Ab. The authors indicate that 50% of individuals have already developed resistance to this protein but no scientific study has yet reported a loss of efficacy of Bt cotton expressing Cry2Ab grown in the United States.
The emergence of such resistance, according to the authors, the result of increased exposure of target insects buy chafing dish to crops PGM supposed to kill. Insects are carriers of the gene (s) (s) involved in the activity of Bt toxins Within a population, some individuals may carry a form (called allele) of the gene that confers resistance to these toxins.
However, "before insect populations are exposed to Bt proteins, alleles conferring resistance are rare" in a population. But by dint of being exposed to an insecticidal Cry protein, natural selection will lead the allele conferring resistance to be present in a number of increasingly large individuals, the others being eliminated.
The day that 50% of them are carriers of this (s) gene (s), the population of insects will be considered'' become resistant. This may take a few years before buy chafing dish emerging practice. The reverse happens as well: the authors point out that the end of the exposure of insects to GM crops does not lead to immediately remove the resistance.
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For the authors of the article, the development of resistance is correlated with increased surfaces Bt crops, increasing the exposure time of insects to Bt proteins buy chafing dish and the number of people exposed.
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Thus, they advocate a proactive management of these resistors buy chafing dish with a "systematic evaluation" of the production of high-dose Bt proteins by PGM and frequency of occurrence of low resistance alleles within populations before exposure. The use of stacked PGM producing several toxins should also contribute, they said, to control the appearance of these resistances.
Finally, buy chafing dish the rigorous implementation of refugia, for those authors, the key element of control resistance. But they say their implementation, the United States, is neither uniform nor always sufficient. This is all the more worrying when one remembers that companies like Monsanto and Pioneer ask precisely these refugia imposed are smaller in the case of crops producing several insecticidal proteins [3].
Until further cases of resistance to Cry protein is detected or a case of resistance to insecticides PGM producing two proteins appear [4]. Scenarios buy chafing dish that confirm, if necessary, the absolute mastery buy chafing dish of the human environment is not possible.
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[2] "Discovery and characterization of field resistance to Bt maize