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INSECTS
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/insects9020053
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- National Natural Science Foundation of PR China [31071681]
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The striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker), overwinters as a diapausing larva. The diapausing larvae were tested for a rapid cold hardening (RCH) response and its role in the insect's survival of sub-zero temperatures. When laboratory-reared diapausing larvae were transferred directly from the rearing temperature of 25 degrees C to -14 degrees C and maintained there for 2 h, 21% survived. Acclimation of diapausing larvae for 4 h at 5 degrees C before their exposure for 2 h to -14 degrees C increased survival to approximately 41%, indicating an RCH response. Durability of RCH effects on low temperature survival was less than 1 h. Although transient in the test, the increased survival acquired through rapid cold hardening may play a role in preparing the diapausing larvae for abrupt temperature drops in the field that would otherwise be lethal.
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