Review of Plant Studies 2412-365X 2410-2970 10.18488/journal.69/2014.1.1/69.1.10.25 Review of Plant Studies Review: Plant Resistance to Agriculture Insect Pests Review of Plant Studies Review of Plant Studies 06-2014 2014 06-2014 06-2014 1 1 10 25 30 Nov 30 Nov <div> Competition and interaction among organisms in nature results to selection for traits which confer added advantage. As a result of such interactions between plants and their natural enemies, plants have developed defensive mechanisms, both chemical and physical, to minimize pest damage. </div><div>Intensive researches were carried out to identify and isolation the gene responsible for resistance plant to insects’ infestation which is used in breeding programs for crops improvement. It can be summarized as follows: </div><div>1-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>  Corn ear worm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) can’t cause damage to certain corn strain due to maysin, a C-glycosyl flavone, and related compounds in the silks that inhibit corn earworm larval growth. Scientist can identify corn chromosome regions associated with silk maysin concentration, and then used it in producing new hybrid.</div><div>2-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>Other insect such as the fall army worm, Spodoptera frugiperda can’t cause damage to resistance corn due to some factors as high hemicelluloses content, low protein content and leaf toughness. They can also identify a gene code which is controlled by the resistance traits of corn to the fall army worm. </div><div>3-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>However, the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) can’t cause damage to certain corn varieties due to high concentrations of 2,4-dihydroxy-7- methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one (DIMBOA) in the leaves of mid-whorl stage plants. Scientist indicated that resistance to the European corn borer was identified in Peruvian corn germplasm and the GEM (Germplasm Enhancement of Maize) corn collection, then make backcross to produce new resistance strain. </div><div>4-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>Other crops as tomato infested by Tuta absoluta  (Meyrick ( but some tomato varieties as Lycopersicon esculentum can resist it due to antixenosis factor which interrupted tomato leaf miner from feed, oviposition and shelter . </div><div>5-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko), can’t cause damage to some wheat and barley and others crop due to antibiosis and antixenosis factors. Six sources of resistant wheat, each governed by a different, single gene, have been identified.</div><div>6-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>Two-spotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) and Whiteflies, Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) are herbivorous pests. Additional whitefly infestation to spider-mite infested plants resulted in a reduced attraction of predatory mites (Phytoseiulus persimilis). This interference was shown to result from the reduction in (E)-β-ocimene emission from plantsinfested by both spider mites and whiteflies.</div><div>7-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal;"> </span></span>Transgenic crops expressing a protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) were carried out into potato, maize, cotton and soybean to be reduced their insect infestation.</div>