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Heliothis

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Noun1.Heliothis - a genus of NoctuidaeHeliothis - a genus of Noctuidae                
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
family Noctuidae, Noctuidae - cutworms; armyworms
heliothis moth, Heliothis zia - medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms


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She cites a 2002 Greenpeace-commissioned report on Bt cotton cropping in China, which found increasing problems with secondary pests, including sap-sucking mirids and jassids, a decline in natural predators and parasites including Heliothis armigera caterpillars, the principal pest of Asian cotton crops, as well as signs of emerging resistance to Bt toxin.
11) Instead, some other advantageous phenotypes, such as resistance to the insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis in the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens, have evolved due to the insertion of a jumping gene into the cadherin gene of this organism.
The V410M mutation associated with pyrethroid resistance in Heliothis virescens reduces the pyrethroid sensitivity of house fly sodium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes.
 
 
 
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