Mathew, Lolita G. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1976-2155
Ponnuraj, Jeyakumar
Mallappa, Bheemanna
Chowdary, Lingutla R.
Zhang, Jianwei
Tay, Wee Tek
Walsh, Thomas K.
Gordon, Karl H. J.
Heckel, David G.
Downes, Sharon
Carrière, Yves
Li, Xianchun
Tabashnik, Bruce E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2430-2367
Fabrick, Jeffrey A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3893-9545
Article History
Received: 4 May 2018
Accepted: 28 August 2018
First Online: 10 September 2018
Competing Interests
: This is a cooperative investigation between the USDA Agricultural Research Service, the University of Arizona, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. DuPont Pioneer provided partial support to J.A.F., B.E.T., and Y.C. for this work. J.A.F. is coauthor of a patent “Cadherin Receptor Peptide for Potentiating Bt Biopesticides” (patent numbers: US20090175974A1, US8354371, WO2009067487A2, WO2009067487A3). B.E.T. is a coauthor of a patent on modified Bt toxins, “Suppression of Resistance in Insects to <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i> Cry Toxins, Using Toxins that do not Require the Cadherin Receptor” (patent numbers: CA2690188A1, CN101730712A, EP2184293A2, EP2184293A4, EP2184293B1, WO2008150150A2, WO2008150150A3). All other authors declare no potential conflict of interest. Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto, FMC, Gowan, and Syngenta did not provide funding to support this work, but may be affected financially by publication of this paper and have funded other work by some of the authors.