“…In Southeastern Asian countries, the resistance problem has become more serious because DBM goes through its life cycle more than 15 times per year in this area. Several reports on OP resistance in DBM were reported (Cheng, 1986;Miyata et al, 1986;Sun et al, 1986) in the international workshop held in Tainan, Taiwan in 1985. As for the resistant mechanism, enhanced activities of carboxylesterase (Sun et al, 1978;Noppun et al, 1987) and glutathion S-transferase (Cheng et al, 1983) have been pointed out as degradation factors. A decrease in sensitivity of the target enzyme, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), to OP has also been proposed (Sudderuddin and Kok, 1978;Nop-pun et al, 1983).…”