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Stanley D. Beck
Stanley D. Beck
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researcher en cl educator, his major interests comprised three quite different areas of insect physiology. He macle major contributions to host plant resistance to insects, especially maize resistance to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubitatis (Hubner)
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He gracluatecl magna cum laucle en cl as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from Washington State University in 1942. He server!
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He publishecl 138 refereed research papers, several books, inclucling The Simplicity of Science, Animal Photoper~odism, Insect Photoperiodism (two eclitions) , en cl Modern Science and Christian Life; en cl articles for scientific magazines.
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Beck and coworkers were the first researchers to clevelop an acloquate artificial cliet for a lepidopterous species, identifying critical components unidentified by previous researchers (Beck et al., 1949, Beck en cl Stauffer, 1950~. The rearing of lepiclopterous insects started with the 1949 en cl 1950 papers on successful artificial cliets for rearing the European corn borer.
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Using the European corn-borer diet as a tool, Stan conducted the first systematic studies of the chemical basis of plant resistance (Beck, 1957b, Beck and Smissman, 1960~. The availability of an artificial diet made it possible for the first time to assess large numbers of serial extracts and later, pure compounds, one extract or compound at a time.
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. In the 1950s Stan Beck and his colleague, Jim Apple, were geographically well located in Wisconsin to study the voltinism of the European corn borer.
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This project is still active uncler a new number, NC 205. Builcling on his early voltinism studies en cl continuing to use the European corn borer as his moclel insect, Stan Beck focused on gaining an increased understanding of the underlying mechanisms of insect seasonal time measurement.
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ATexancler, 1964; Beck et al., 1965 ~ investigated whether a hormone proclucecl by the proctociaeum of the European corn borer plays a role in cliapause clevelopment. Beck namer!
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Toward the end of his research career Stan Beck was convinced that interactions between clay length en cl temperature cycles helcl the key to unclerstancling how insect seasonal cycles are regulatecI. This quote from his 1983 Annual Review of Entomology article captures this point: "It is now becoming increasingly apparent that there are exceedingly significant biological responses to daily temperature cycles, with important interactions between photoperiodic and thermoperiodic adaptations.
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to unclerstancl the funciamental characteristics of insect clevelopment en cl ecological strategies en cl to manage economically important insect populations." SERVICE TO HIS PROFESSION AND REFLECTIONS ON HIS LIFE Stan Beck was a member of the Entomological Society of America en cl served as its president en cl was a member of its Governing Board en cl Executive Committee, as well as other committees. He presenter!
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BE CK 13 One of us 0.C.R.) will never forget the clay that Stan rollecl out of his office announcing that he hacl just re-reacl a 1971 paper by Jim Truman and that he thought he had a new way of attacking insect photoperiodism.
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by Wallace Wikoff, writer for the Maclison-publishecl newspaper, Wisconsin State Journal, when he quoted Stan as follows: "Once vou J have acljustec! yourself to the realization that you are slightly incapacitated, then the roacl back is less clifficult.
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1951. Nutritional aspects of host plant resistance to the European corn borer.
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1960. The European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, and its principal host plant.
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1986. European corn borer leaffeeding resistance and DIMBOA content in inbred lines of dent maize grown under field versus greenhouse conditions.
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1982b. European corn borer leaf feeding resistance: A simplified technique for determining relative differences in concentrations of 6-methoxybenzoxazolinone (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
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1957. Isolation and synthesis of an insect resistance factor from corn plants.
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Effects of temperature and photoperiod on voltinism of geographical populations of the European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis (Hubn.~.
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The European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, and its principal host plant.
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Interrelationships of nutritional indices and dietary moisture in the black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon) digestive efficiency.
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