Wednesday, December 12, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

San Diego, Atlas Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

Section Symposium: Bt Crops and Resistance Monitoring: Innovation and Influence in U.S. Pest Management

Organizer(s): Sharlene R. Matten, matten.sharlene@epa.gov
Alan H. Reynolds, reynolds.alan@epa.gov
8:00 AM1175Why EPA thinks resistance monitoring for Bt crops has been important and where do we go from here
Sharlene R. Matten, matten.sharlene@epa.gov, Alan Reynolds, reynolds.alan@epa.gov
8:20 AM 1176The importance of resistance monitoring, the past, present, and future: An industry perspective for Bt cotton
Graham P. Head, graham.p.head@monsanto.com
8:40 AM1177USDA's tobacco budworm resistance monitoring program for Bt cotton: Where have we gone and where are we going?
Carlos A. Blanco, cblanco@ars.usda.gov
9:00 AM 1178Cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) resistance monitoring in Bt cotton: The past, present, and future
Randy Luttrell, luttrell@uark.edu, M. Ibrahim Ali, miali@uark.edu
9:20 AM 1179The importance of resistance monitoring, the past, present, and future: An industry perspective for Bt corn
Nicholas Storer, nstorer@dow.com
9:40 AM Break
10:00 AM 1180European corn borer and corn rootworm resistance to Bt corn: The story of two different resistance monitoring programs
Blair D. Siegfried, bsiegfried1@unl.edu
10:20 AM1181Use of F2 sreening to identify sugarcane borer resistance in Bt corn: How can this technique be employed more broadly?
Fangneng Huang, fhuang@agcenter.lsu.edu
10:40 AM 1182The value of DNA markers in resistance monitoring for Bt crops
Bruce E. Tabashnik, brucet@ag.arizona.edu
11:00 AM 1183Importance of knowledge on the mechanism of resistance for resistance monitoring choices in the field
Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, jurat@utk.edu
11:20 AM1184Remote sensing: A tool for resistance monitoring in Bt crops
John A. Glaser, glaser.john@epa.gov
11:40 AM Concluding Remarks

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