The invention discloses application of
scopoletin in
brown planthopper resistance of rice and a detection method. According to the application of
scopoletin in preparation of biopesticides or
plant insect-resistant agents for preventing and controlling brown planthoppers, the
scopoletin directly acts on the brown planthoppers, and the
survival rate, the
weight gain, the
egg laying amount and the number of
yeast-like symbiotic fungi in the brown planthoppers are inhibited. According to the method for screening
brown planthopper-resistant rice, the content of scopoletin in leaf sheath tissue of a
rice plant is larger than or equal to 80 micrograms per
gram of
dry weight, and the
survival rate of brown planthoppers is reduced by 60% within 7 days in an artificial
insect inoculation experiment. According to the invention, direct association between scopoletin and
brown planthopper resistance in rice is discovered for the first time, and a new
metabolite-mediated
insect resistance theory is provided; meanwhile, the composition acts on physiological, reproductive and
symbiotic bacteria of pests, so that the
drug resistance risk is reduced; the method is environment-friendly, natural in source and low in residue; the application range is wide, and
biopesticide and insect-resistant breeding screening indexes can be developed; all the methods are successfully reproduced in a laboratory, and the method has an industrial transformation basis.