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Environ Entomol

Title:		Capitate Glandular Trichomes Fail to Provide Significant Resistance to Banded Sunflower Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Author(s):		Prasifka JR; Hulke BS;
Address:		"USDA-ARS, Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center, Fargo, ND"
Journal Title:		Environ Entomol
Year:		2020
Volume:		49
Issue:		2
Page Number:		444 - 448
DOI:		10.1093/ee/nvaa002
ISSN/ISBN:		1938-2936 (Electronic) 0046-225X (Linking)
Abstract:		"Extracts from capitate glandular trichomes (CGT) of wild and cultivated sunflowers, Helianthus spp., have repellent or toxic effects on sunflower specialists and generalist herbivores less closely associated with sunflower. Though CGT have been primarily examined for their potential to provide partial resistance to the sunflower moth, Homoeosoma electellum Hulst (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), a floret- and seed-feeding pest, the banded sunflower moth (Cochylis hospes Walsingham [Lepidoptera: Tortricidae]) is a similar species more common in the primary sunflower-producing states of North Dakota and South Dakota. Replicated field trials using partially inbred lines with low or high CGT densities were used to evaluate possible reductions to seed damage by C. hospes larvae in 2016-2017. Results failed to support the idea that CGT are a useful defense against larvae of C. hospes; the putative plant defense of high trichome density corresponded to slightly more, rather than less, insect damage. A test of a secondary explanation, that strength of sunflower hulls could help determine patterns of seed damage among tested lines, produced similarly negative results. Though timing of bloom differed between groups of most- and least-damaged lines, prior research and pheromone-trapping data suggest differences in plant maturity also cannot adequately explain the observed results. While the specific mechanisms remain unclear, significant differences in susceptibility to C. hospes exist for cultivated sunflower and limit losses from this primary insect pest"
Keywords:		Animals *Helianthus *Moths North Dakota South Dakota Trichomes Helianthus annuus Homoeosoma electellum antibiosis host plant resistance sesquiterpene lactone;
Notes:		"MedlinePrasifka, Jarrad R Hulke, Brent S eng England 2020/01/22 Environ Entomol. 2020 Apr 14; 49(2):444-448. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvaa002"