Host Plant Resistance
Cultural Control Definition Preventive strategies aimed to reduce pest populations through agronomic practices of low environmental impact Ento 401 Class
Host Plant Resistance Is the collective heritable characteristics by which a plant species, race, clone or individual may reduce the possibility of successful utilization of that plant as a host by an insect species, race, biotype or individual.
Chemical Biological Cultural Plant resistance IPM
Case Study: The French Grape Crisis
C. V. Riley
Antibiosis Antixenosis Tolerance Theoretical Approaches
Methodological Approaches Mendelian approach Biometrician’s approach Biotechnologist’s approach
Resistance to Bt crops Bt crop Non-Bt crop (refuge)
Molecular markers
Plant defenses Constitutive Induced
Plant defense
Future goal of plant resistance: To incorporate plant defense genes into crops.