“…In maize, resistance to the European corn borer is conditioned in a similar manner, albeit with additive gene action accounting for the majority of the QTL than dominance and over dominance gene actions (Guthrie and Russell, 1989;Bohn et al, 2000;Krakowsky et al, 2004;Jampatong et al, 2002). Scott et al (1966) showed that resistance to the European corn borer, a lepidopteran pest just like C. partellus and B. fusca was conditioned by a relatively large number of genes with small effects on chromosomes 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8. The caution is that some QTL may not have been detected and, or, were dissimilar to those reported for related stem borers species due to the low heritability of the putative traits, and differences in trait characterization (Khairallah et al, 1998;Jiménez-Galindo et al, 2017).…”