Key message Recent updates in JA biosynthesis, signaling pathways and the crosstalk
between JA and others phytohormones in relation with plant responses to different stresses …

Jasmonates (JAs) are physiologically important molecules involved in a wide range of plant
responses from growth, flowering, senescence to defence against abiotic and biotic stress …

Bowman-Birk inhibitors (BBIs) are found primarily in seeds of legumes and in cereal grains.
These canonical inhibitors share a highly conserved nine-amino acids binding loop motif …

Plants protect themselves against pest attack utilizing both direct and indirect modes of
defense. The direct mode of defense includes morphological, biochemical, and molecular …

The calcium (Ca2+) signaling is a crucial event during plant-herbivore interaction, which
involves a transient change in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, which is sensed by Ca2+ …

Chickpea is an important nutritive food crop both for humans and animals. Chickpea wilt
caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris (Foc) results in huge yield losses every year …

Arginine rich, mutated in early stage of tumours (Armet), is a well‐characterized bifunctional
protein as an unfolded protein response component intracellularly and a neurotrophic factor …

Annually, the cost of insect pest control in agriculture crosses billions of dollars around the
world. Until recently, broad-spectrum synthetic pesticides were considered as the most …

China has implemented a series of policies to reduce the usage of chemical pesticides to
maintain food production safety and to reduce water and soil pollution. However, there is still …

Sugarcane aphid (SCA; Melanaphis sacchari Zehntner) is a key piercing-sucking pest of
sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) that cause significant yield losses. While feeding on host plants …