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Biochemistry and molecular biology of Arabidopsis-aphid interactions.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Sept 2007
de Vos Martin, Kim Jae Hak, Jander Georg
Abstract excerpt
To ensure their survival in natural habitats, plants must recognize and respond to a wide variety of insect herbivores. Aphids and other Hemiptera pose a particular challenge, because they cause relatively little direct tissue damage when inserting their slender stylets intercellularly to feed from the phloem sieve elements. Plant responses to this unusual feeding strategy almost certainly include recognition of...
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