Team Leader: Tatjana Sikuljak, BASF
The availability of standard, validated and easy-to-run, ‘IRAC-approved’ methods for resistance detection in the world’s major pests is crucial for successful monitoring of resistance problems, and IRAC has worked to make these available via its website and the online eMethods tool . The methods team is responsible for ensuring that IRAC has available a suite of up-to-date methods to meet this need. The team is also responsible for coordinating the development and validation of new methods and for preparing them for inclusion on the website and eMethods. This involves interaction with other IRAC Teams and cooperation with external experts in academia and institutes. The methods team has also agreed that it should include biochemical and molecular methodologies as well as references to other methods not validated by IRAC.
Download the IRAC methods using the links on the right hand side of the page. Alternatively use the eMethods tool to search for validated IRAC methods or links to references for methods published in the peer reviewed journals.
Click on the following links to view the Method No 022 Tuta absoluta video and the Method No 019 Aphid (Myzus persicea) video both developed by the IRAC Methods Team.
Links to External Resources:
WHO Methods
CDC Vector resistance Assays:
Analysis of Bioassay Data
A great new booklet from IRAC giving some background on the biology of Tuta absoluta and outlining IRM guidelines to help manage this pest. A copy of the booklet can be downloaded from the IRAC website via the link: Tuta absoluta - The Tomato Leafminer or Tomato Borer
Also just available from the website is the new IRAC Tuta absoluta Test Method video No. 022.
IRAC Test Methods for Myzus persicae nymphs (No. 023) and for Aphis gossypii nymphs (No. 024), both for use with the MoA Group 28 active, cyantraniliprole, have been developed and posted on the website by the IRAC Methods Team. The methods are available for downloaded from the IRAC website via the links: Method No. 023 and Method No. 024.
