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Genetic Transformation of Crops for Resistance to Insect Pests 215
TABLE 7.2
Insect-Resistant Transgenic Crops Based on -Endotoxins from Bacillus thuringiensis
Crop Transgene Remarks References
Cotton cryIAc
cryIAc
cryIAc
cry1Ac
Maize cry1Ab
cry9C
cryIAb
cryIAb
cry1Ab
cryIAb, cryIAc
cry34Ab1 and
cry 35Ab1
cry1Ab
Effective against Pectinophora gossypiella. High
levels of resistance in Coker 312 to Trichoplusia
ni, Spodoptera exigua, and Helicoverpa zea/
Heliothis virescens.
High mortality of Helicoverpa armigera in Shiyuan
321 and Zhongmiansuo 19, 3517, and 541.
S 545, S 591, S 636, S 1001 from Simian 3, and
1109 from Zhongmiansuo 12 exhibit high levels
of resistance to Helicoverpa armigera.
MECH 12, MECH 162 and MECH 184.
Resistant to European corn borer, Ostrinia
nubilalis.
Resistant to European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis.
Effective against spotted stem borer, Chilo
partellus and maize stalk borer, Busseola fusca.
Resistant to stem borers, Diatraea grandiosella and
Diatraea saccharalis.
Resistant to fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda
and Southwestern corn borer, Diabrotica
undecimpuncta howardi.
Resistant to corn earworm, fall armyworm,
Southwestern corn borer, and sugarcane borer.
Resistant to Western maize rootworm, Diabrotica
virgifera virgifera and southern maize rootworm,
Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi.
Line GH 0937 resistant to Helicoverpa zea and
Spodoptera frugiperda.
Rice cryIAb Basmati 370 and M 7 resistant to striped stem
borer, Chilo suppressalis and leaf folder,
Cnaphalocrosis medinalis.
Resistant to yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga
incertulas and striped stem borer, Chilo
suppressalis.
Resistant to yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga
incertulas.
Maintainer line R 68899B resistant to yellow rice
stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas and leaf
folder, Cnaphalocrosis medinalis.
Transgenic plants resistant to yellow stem borer.
cryIAc Lines IR 64, Pusa Basmati 1, and Karnal Local
caused complete mortality of yellow stem borer
larvae within 4 days of infestation.
cryIIa Resistant to leaf folder, Cnaphalocrosis medinalis
and yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas.
Sorghum cryIAc Moderately resistant to spotted stem borer, Chilo
partellus.
Wilson et al. (1992),
Benedict et al. (1996)
S.D. Guo et al. (1999)
Ni et al. (1996)
Mohan and Manjunath (2002)
Kozeil et al. (1993),
Armstrong et al. (1995)
Jansens et al. (1997)
van Rensburg (1999)
Bergvinson, Willcox, and
Hoisington (1997)
Williams et al. (1997)
Bohorova et al. (1999)
Herman et al. (2002)
Wiseman et al. (1999)
Fujimoto et al. (1993)
Ghareyazie et al. (1997)
Datta et al. (1998)
Alam et al. (1999)
Nayak et al. (1997)
Khanna and Raina (2002)
Mqbool et al. (1998)
Girijashankar et al. (2006)
Sugarcane cry1Ab Resistant to sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis. Arencibia et al. (1997)
Groundnut cry1Ac Complete mortality or up to 66% reduction in
larval weight of lesser corn stalk borer,
Elasmopalpus lignosellus.
Singsit et al. (1997)
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