TY - JOUR T1 - Cotton plants expressing a hemipteran-active Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein impact the development and survival of Lygus hesperus (Hemiptera: Miridae) nymphs. AU - Baum,James A, AU - Sukuru,Uma R, AU - Penn,Stephen R, AU - Meyer,Steven E, AU - Subbarao,Shubha, AU - Shi,Xiaohong, AU - Flasinski,Stanislaw, AU - Heck,Gregory R, AU - Brown,Robert S, AU - Clark,Thomas L, PY - 2012/5/22/entrez PY - 2012/5/23/pubmed PY - 2012/6/8/medline SP - 616 EP - 24 JF - Journal of economic entomology JO - J Econ Entomol VL - 105 IS - 2 N2 - The plant bugs Lygus hesperus Knight (Hemiptera: Miridae) and L. lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) have emerged as economic pests of cotton in the United States. These hemipteran species are refractory to the insect control traits found in genetically modified commercial varieties of cotton. In this article, we report the isolation and characterization of a 35 kDa crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis, designated TIC807, which causes reduced mass gain and mortality of L. hesperus and L. lineolaris nymphs when presented in an artificial diet feeding assay. Cotton plants expressing the TIC807 protein were observed to impact the survival and development of L. hesperus nymphs in a concentration-dependent manner. These results, demonstrating in planta activity of a Lygus insecticidal protein, represent an important milestone in the development of cotton varieties protected from Lygus feeding damage. SN - 0022-0493 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/22606834/Cotton_plants_expressing_a_hemipteran_active_Bacillus_thuringiensis_crystal_protein_impact_the_development_and_survival_of_Lygus_hesperus__Hemiptera:_Miridae__nymphs_ L2 - https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-lookup/doi/10.1603/ec11207 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -