Sunday, December 9, 2001: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Sunrise(Meeting House/Executive Conference Center)

Section F Symposium: Rootworm Transgenics: Current Status and Resistance Management Considerations

Session Chair(s): Bruce E. Hibbard
Thomas L. Clark
1:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:05 PM0107Sixty years of native host-plant resistance research: Transgenic resistance to rootworms in context
Bruce E. Hibbard
1:25 PM0108The Monsanto product: Current status
Jay C. Pershing
1:45 PM0109Corn rootworm resistance update: Insect efficacy and resistance management issues
Dan Moellenbeck
2:05 PM0110Modeling resistance to transgenic corn: Important variables and possible scenarios
Nick Storer
2:25 PM0111The impact of larval movement patterns and alternate larval hosts on the biology and resistance management of the western corn rootworm
Thomas L. Clark, Bruce E. Hibbard
2:45 PMBreak
3:00 PM0112Adult movement in a soybean rotation
Joseph Spencer, Timothy Mabry, Eli Levine, Scott Isard
3:20 PM0113The relative fitness of western corn rootworm adults after larval and/or adult feeding on transgenic corn
Lance Meinke
3:40 PM0114Transgenics vs areawide management: Competing or complementary strategies?
Laurence D. Chandler
4:00 PM0115Implications of the Nebraska insecticide resistance esterase system toward understanding corn rootworm gene flow and potential resistance to transgenics
Blair Siegfried, Lance Meinke

The ESA 2001 Annual Meeting - 2001: An Entomological Odyssey of ESA