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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Année : 2003

Initial frequency of alleles conferring resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis poplar in a field population of Chrysomela tremulae

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Globally, the estimated total area planted with transgenic plants producing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins was 12 million hectares in 2001. The risk of target pests becoming resistant to these toxins has led to the implementation of resistance-management strategies. The efficiency and sustainability of these strategies, including the high-dose plus refuge strategy currently recommended for North American maize, depend on the initial frequency of resistance alleles. In this study, we estimated the initial frequencies of alleles conferring resistance to transgenic Bt poplars producing Cry3A in a natural population of the poplar pest Chrysomela tremulae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). We used the F2 screen method developed for detecting resistance alleles in natural pest populations. At least three parents of the 270 lines tested were heterozygous for a major Bt resistance allele. We estimated mean resistance-allele frequency for the period 1999–2001 at 0.0037 (95% confidence interval = 0.000 45–0.0080) with a detection probability of 90%. These results demonstrate that (i) the F2 screen method can be used to detect major alleles conferring resistance to Bt-producing plants in insects and (ii) the initial frequency of alleles conferring resistance to Bt toxin can be close to the highest theoretical values that are expected prior to the use of Bt plants if considering fitness costs and typical mutation rates.
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hal-02670846 , version 1 (02-09-2020)

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Anne Genissel, Anne Gé Nissel, Sylvie Augustin, Claudine Courtin, Gilles Pilate, et al.. Initial frequency of alleles conferring resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis poplar in a field population of Chrysomela tremulae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2003, 270 (1517), pp.791-797. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2002.2317⟩. ⟨hal-02670846⟩
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