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In Arabidopsis, NPR1 (AtNPR1) regulates salicylic acid (SA)‐mediated activation of PR genes at the onset of systemic acquired resistance. AtNPR1 also modulates SA‐induced suppression of jasmonic acid‐responsive gene expression, and npr1 mutants manifest enhanced herbivore resistance. We have raised stable transgenic tobacco lines, expressing AtNPR1 constitutively, which showed elevated expression of PR1 and PR2 genes upon SA treatment. Herbivore bioassays with a generalist polyphagous pest, Spodoptera litura, revealed that the transgenic lines exhibited enhanced resistance compared to the wild‐type plants, particularly with respect to younger larval populations. Insect‐mediated injury induced several protease inhibitors (PIs), more significantly a 40‐kDa serine PI in all the tobacco lines, but the induction was higher in the transgenic plants. We show in this communication that heterologous …