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Mining the plant-herbivore interface with a leafmining Drosophila of Arabidopsis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2011
Whiteman Noah K, Groen Simon C, Chevasco Daniela, Bear Ashley, Beckwith Noor, Gregory T Ryan, Denoux Carine, Mammarella Nicole, Ausubel Frederick M, Pierce Naomi E
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Experimental infections of Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) with genomically characterized plant pathogens such as Pseudomonas syringae have facilitated the dissection of canonical eukaryotic defence pathways and parasite virulence factors. Plants are also attacked by herbivorous insects, and the development of an ecologically relevant genetic model herbivore that feeds on Arabidopsis will enable the parallel...
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