Chromobacterium Csp_P biopesticide is toxic to larvae of three Diabrotica species including strains resistant to Bacillus thuringiensis

Abstract The development of new biopesticides to control the western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, is urgent due to resistance evolution to various control methods. We tested an air-dried non-live preparation of Chromobacterium species Panama (Csp_P), against multiple...

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Main Authors: Adriano E. Pereira, Man P. Huynh, Kyle J. Paddock, José L. Ramirez, Eric P. Caragata, George Dimopoulos, Hari B. Krishnan, Sharon K. Schneider, Kent S. Shelby, Bruce E. Hibbard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22229-6