Performance of fall armyworm larvae on and ovipositional preferences of fall armyworm females for three increasingly resistant maize inbred lines, B73-<i>lox10</i>, B73, and Mp708.

<p>Performance of larvae was assessed as body dry weight (mg ± SE) after feeding for 4 d on seedlings of one maize inbred line <b>(A)</b>. Ovipositional preferences of fall armyworm females were assessed in choice-assays involving all three maize inbred lines, and measured as total eggs laid per individual seedling <b>(B)</b>, and total egg masses per each seedling <b>(C)</b>. Different lower-case letters above means within each plot indicate significant differences per ANOVA (critical P = 0.05) and Tukey’s tests. The maize inbred lines are ordered from left to right according to the presumed strength of their resistance to fall armyworm, as indicated at the top of the figure.