Isolation and Characterization of Host Recognition Cues in Corn Roots for Larvae of the Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. 2354-2363 ◽  
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E. J. Bernklau ◽  
B. E. Hibbard ◽  
L. B. Bjostad
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Author(s):  
Dariane Souza ◽  
Blair D Siegfried ◽  
Lance J Meinke ◽  
Nicholas J Miller

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 1855-1863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuguo Zhou ◽  
Michael E. Scharf ◽  
Lance J. Meinke ◽  
Laurence D. Chandler ◽  
Blair D. Siegfried

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 558-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Bernklau ◽  
L. B. Bjostad ◽  
L. N. Meihls ◽  
T. A. Coudron ◽  
E. Lim ◽  
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Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 783
Author(s):  
Man P. Huynh ◽  
Adriano E. Pereira ◽  
Ryan W. Geisert ◽  
Michael G. Vella ◽  
Thomas A. Coudron ◽  
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The western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera LeConte, is the most serious pest of maize in the United States. In pursuit of developing a diet free of antibiotics for WCR, we characterized effects of thermal exposure (50–141 °C) and length of exposure on quality of WCRMO-2 diet measured by life history parameters of larvae (weight, molting, and survival) reared on WCRMO-2 diet. Our results indicated that temperatures had non-linear effects on performance of WCRMO-2 diet, and no impacts were observed on the length of time exposure. The optimum temperature of diet processing was 60 °C for a duration less than 30 min. A significant decline in development was observed in larvae reared on WCRMO-2 diet pretreated above 75 °C. Exposing WCRMO-2 diet to high temperatures (110–141 °C) even if constrained for brief duration (0.9–2.3 s) caused 2-fold reduction in larval weight and significant delays in larval molting but no difference in survival for 10 days compared with the control diet prepared at 65 °C for 10 min. These findings provide insights into the effects of thermal exposure in insect diet processing.


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V. S. KAMUT ◽  
D. W. GRADEN ◽  
J. SHABANOWITZ ◽  
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