%0 Journal Article %T Identifica£¿£¿o de fontes de resist¨ºncia em cultivares de milho ¨¤ spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith, 1797) em casa-de-vegeta£¿£¿o %A Silva %A Deise Maria P. da %A Oliveira %A Jos¨¦ V. de %A Tabosa %A Jos¨¦ Nildo %A Barros %A Reginaldo %A Santos %A Elton O. dos %A Azevedo %A Simone S. %J Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology %D 1999 %I Tecpar %R 10.1590/S1516-89131999000100014 %X two experiments were conducted in a greenhouse, with the objective of identifying sources of resistance in 15 corn cultivars to spodoptera frugiperda. the following cultivars were utilized cms-35 , cms-36, dina-70, cargill-525, pioneer-3210, pioneer-6875, br-201, br-451, ag-106, ag-510, cms-22, contimax-322, br-201, jatin£¿ c3 an£¿o, cargill-511 e br-106. when the plants had 8 to 10 leaves they were infested with 30 newly ecloded larvae per plant. damage evaluation was made 10 to 14 days after infestation, in both experiments, using a visual note scale from 0 to 9. there were no statistical differences among cultivars for the parameters evaluated damage, weight, length and survival larvae. nevertheless a significant linear correlation was found between weigth x larvae length (n = 0,7776, p = 0,01), demonstrating that these parameters can be utilized in the study of corn resistence to s. frugiperda. %K resistance %K zea mays %K foliar damage %K fall armyworm %K larvae weight. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-89131999000100014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en