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Silicon-mediated and constitutive resistance to Rhopalosiphum maidis (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in corn hybrids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2018

C.A. Boer ,
M.V. Sampaio  and
H.S. Pereira
C.A. Boer*
Affiliation:
Federal University of Uberlândia, Agricultural Sciences Institute, Uberlândia – Minas Gerais, Brazil
M.V. Sampaio
Affiliation:
Federal University of Uberlândia, Agricultural Sciences Institute, Uberlândia – Minas Gerais, Brazil
H.S. Pereira
Affiliation:
Federal University of Uberlândia, Agricultural Sciences Institute, Uberlândia – Minas Gerais, Brazil
*
*Author for correspondence Phone: +55 34 3238-2566 E-mail: carlo.a.boer@outlook.com; carlo.a.boer@monsanto.com
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Abstract

The corn leaf aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), is an important pest of corn, but no corn genotypes resistant to R. maidis are commercially available. Although the ability of silicon to induce plant resistance against some insects is known, the effect of silicon on R. maidis and in corn hybrids with different levels of constitutive resistance is still unknown. This study sought to determine the constitutive resistance of corn hybrids to R. maidis and silicon resistance induction in hybrids with different degrees of constitutive resistance. Field experiments with natural infestations of aphids were conducted in three locations in Brazil (Patos de Minas, Araguari, and Tupaciguara). Greenhouse trials were also used to evaluate the effect of varietal resistance on aphid population growth and identify resistant and susceptible genotypes. Aphid resistance induced by silicon was determined with resistant and susceptible corn hybrids. In the field, the corn hybrids BM8850, AS1625PRO, and DKB310PRO had the greatest proportion of plants infested by R. maidis in all three localities. The hybrids P30F53H, STATUS VIP, BM9288, DAS2B587HX, DKB175PRO, AS1633PRO, and DKB390PRO2 were the least infested in Patos de Minas and Araguari, and P30F53H was the least infested in Tupaciguara. When antibiosis effects were evaluated by aphid population growth, the hybrids AG7088PRO3 and DKB310PRO2 were susceptible, while P30F53YH was resistant. When natural aphid infestation was evaluated, wherein the effects of antibiosis and non-preference could not be discriminated, soil applications of silicon-induced resistance to R. maidis in both susceptible and constitutively resistant corn hybrids.

Keywords

antibiosisantixenosisaphidsilicon fertilization
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 109 , Issue 3 , June 2019 , pp. 356 - 364
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