Fabrick, Jeffrey A.
Unnithan, Gopalan C.
Yelich, Alex J.
DeGain, Ben
Masson, Luke
Zhang, Jie
Carrière, Yves
Tabashnik, Bruce E.
Article History
Received: 11 August 2015
Accepted: 15 October 2015
First Online: 12 November 2015
Competing interests
: This is a cooperative investigation between USDA ARS, the University of Arizona and DuPont-Pioneer with J.A.F., B.E.T. and Y.C. receiving partial funding from DuPont-Pioneer to support this work (agreement #58-3K95-4-1666). 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). Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto 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.