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Table 1. Insecticide use pattern in diversified transgenic and isoline vegetable crops. Applications were applied when mean density of target pest among all subplots exceeded pre-determined thresholds.
Insecticide
Crop Genotypea Week Target pest Active Ingredient Formulation
Sweet corn isoline 22 seedcorn maggot diazinon Germate PL
31 corn earworm lambda-cyhaluthrin Warrior-T
34 corn earworm lambda-cyhaluthrin Warrior-T
transgenic 22 seedcorn maggot diazinon Germate PL
32 Japanese beetle lambda-cyhaluthrin Warrior-T
Potato isoline 22 Colorado potato beetle imidacloprid Admire
30 potato leafhopper cyfluthrin Baythroid
transgenic 26 potato leafhopper esfenvalerate Asana
30 potato leafhopper cyfluthrin Baythroid
32 aphids oxamyl Vydate L
Acorn squash isoline 27 striped cucumber beetle esfenvalerate Asana
28 squash bug esfenvalerate Asana
transgenic 27 striped cucumber beetle esfenvalerate Asana

aIsoline and transgenic, respectively: ‘Jackpot’ and ‘BC 0801’ for the sweet corn; ‘Superior’ and ‘New Leaf Superior’ for the potatoes; ‘Taybelle’ and ‘Taybelle PM’ for the acorn squash.
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