Coordinator Announcements

It has been brought to my attention that there were a couple of mistakes in the last newsletter. Hopefully these corrected versions will help clear things up.

First, in the editorial by Rick Roush the words 'the resources' were left out of the second paragraph, second line. It should have read like this....

"There is insufficient space here to review these debates, but it seems clear that the EPA is reluctant to use regulation to help delay resistance to pesticides. In the EPA's defense, it may not have the resources to do so. EPA has made some modest Proactive efforts in avoiding resistance, such as requesting resistance management statements from some companies developing transgenic plants and more traditional pesticides. Nonetheless, in the absence of any efforts to enforce or facilitate the adoption of resistance management plans, such documents clearly have little more than public relations or educational value. "

Second in the article "Consequences of Shared Toxins in Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis for Resistance in Diamondback Moth" in the Resistance Around the Globe section the words 'to which' were replaced with 'that' in the last sentence of the article. The last sentence should read as....

"To avoid this dilemma, industry should avoid introducing Bt products with shared toxins to which populations have already developed resistance."

Also, if you would like to submit an article to the Newsletter the next issue will be coming out in late June- early July. Submissions should be to me no later than May 20th, 1996. Submissions for articles can be done via disk (preferred) from any IBM software package, via e-mail to the address below, or any hard copy of text and/or graphics. Please try to keep your articles under 4 single spaced pages.

Jennifer L. Ziegler
RPM Newsletter Coordinator
B-11 Pesticide Research Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
United States
zieglerj@pilot.msu.edu