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Foliar herbivory triggers local and long distance defense responses in maize.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Feb 2013
Ankala Arunkanth, Kelley Rowena Y, Rowe Dennis E, Williams William P, Luthe Dawn S
Abstract excerpt
Many studies have documented the induction of belowground defenses in plants in response to aboveground herbivory and vice versa, but the genes and signaling molecules mediating systemic induction are not well understood. We performed comparative microarray analysis on maize whorl and root tissues from the insect resistant inbred Mp708 in response to foliar feeding by fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)...
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