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A four-year survey on insecticide resistance and likelihood of chemical control failure for tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta in the European/Asian region

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Tuta absoluta is an invasive destructive pest that is currently posing a major threat for tomato production worldwide. Insecticides are a key component of typical pest management schemes. Resistance to diamides, the most recently introduced class of insecticides, was recently reported in Italy. Monitoring of insecticide efficacy is the basic tool for proactive evidence-based resistance management. Here, we report the findings of a 4-year survey performed at the Euro-Asian region. A total of 35 populations were collected between 2012 and 2016 from Greece, Italy, Spain, Israel and UK. The response of these populations was evaluated through laboratory bioassays with the main insecticides used for T. absoluta control: chlorantraniliprole, indoxacarb, emamectin benzoate and spinosad. Analysis of the results indicated six cases of low/moderate resistance to the emamectin benzoate (resistance ratio (RR) > 15-fold), a single case of resistance to spinosad (RR: 33-fold) and five cases of resistance to indoxacarb (RR: 13- to 91-fold). Likelihood of control failure was detected for indoxacarb, but reports of poor field performance were absent. Resistance to chlorantraniliprole, after 2015, was widespread in Italy and Greece with high RR (>64-fold) and significant likelihood of control failure in most cases. Chlorantraniliprole resistance was also detected in Israel (RR: 22,573-fold) but not in Spain and UK (RR < twofold). The absence of diamide resistance in tomato leaf miner populations in Spain is most likely linked to a recently established integrated pest management program including non-chemical measures and the rotational use of insecticides of different mode of action classes.

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Hellenic Agricultural Organisation—‘Demeter’ was partially supported by an ARIMnet2 StomP grant to A. Tsagkarakou and E. Roditakis. Emmanouil Vasakis was supported by a scholarship provided by the Hellenic Entomological Society. The Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena would like to thank for partial financial support the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain and FEDER (AGL2011-25164). Lidia García-Vidal holds a grant from the MECD (FPU13/01528). Also, the work was partially supported by grants provided by DuPont De Nemours to E. Roditakis and P. Bielza and by Bayer AG to E. Roditakis. Finally, the Hellenic Agricultural Organisation—‘Demeter’ would like to thank Fytochem S.A., Neo Mirtos, Ierapetra for supplies of plant material, as well as agronomists in Greece, Italy, Israel, Spain and UK for their support in sample collection.

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  1. Hellenic Agricultural Organisation - ‘Demeter’, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Plants and Viniculture, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Emmanouil Roditakis, Emmanouil Vasakis & Anastasia Tsagkarakou

  2. Departamento de Producción Vegetal, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

    Lidia García-Vidal, María del Rosario Martínez-Aguirre & Pablo Bielza

  3. DuPont de Nemours ERDC, 24 rue du Moulin, 68740, Nambsheim, France

    Jean Luc Rison & Marie Odile Haxaire-Lutun

  4. Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, R&D, Pest Control, Alfred Nobel Str 50, 40789, Monheim, Germany

    Ralf Nauen

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Roditakis, E., Vasakis, E., García-Vidal, L. et al. A four-year survey on insecticide resistance and likelihood of chemical control failure for tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta in the European/Asian region. J Pest Sci 91, 421–435 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-017-0900-x

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