U.S. Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1-2003
Citation
Published in Crop Sci. 42:444–445 (2003).
Abstract
Zapalote Chico 2451F (ZC-2451F) (Reg. no. GP-370, PI 618810), a maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm population was released in April 2001 by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit. This population was released as a source of improved resistance to silk and ear feeding by larvae of the corn silk fly [Euxesta stigmatias Loew. (Diptera: Otitidae)], the fall armyworm [Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith)], and the corn earworm [Heliocoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)]. Zapalote Chico 2451F is distinct from Shrunken Zapalote Chico (ZC-sh2) (PI 612343), and the Zapalote Chico land race collected in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in the late 1940s, and first acceded to the National Seed Storage Laboratory as PI 217413 (Scully et al., 2000; Anderson, 1959; Straub and Fairchild, 1970). PI 217413 was one of the earliest Zapalote Chico populations identified as a source of natural compounds with insecticidal properties (Wais et al., 1979;Wilson and Wiseman, 1988). Resistance in Zapalote Chico 2451F is also due to elevated levels of the flavone glycoside maysin that is found in fresh silk (Ellinger et al., 1980; Snook et al., development of new germplasms or parental lines. 1993, 1995). Maysin is synthesized in the flavonoid pathway W.L. Rooney and known to specifically confer antibiosis-based resistance to silk feeding (Byrne et al., 1996).
Comments
U.S. government work.