Plants respond to insect herbivory with responses broadly known as direct defenses, indirect
defenses, and tolerance. Direct defenses include all plant traits that affect susceptibility of …

Prone to attacks by pathogens and pests, plants employ intricate chemical defense
mechanisms consisting of metabolic adaptations. However, many plant attackers are …

Advances in the flavonoid field have been nothing short of spectacular over the last 20
years. While the medical field has noticed flavonoids for their potential antioxidant …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

The combination of QTL mapping studies of synthetic lines and association mapping studies
of natural diversity represents an opportunity to throw light on the genetically based variation …

Ten structural genes from the Capsicum (pepper) carotenoid biosynthetic pathway have
been localized on a (Capsicum annuum× Capsicum chinense) F2 genetic map anchored in …

To determine the scope of gene expression controlled by the maize transcription factors
C1/R and P, which are responsible for activating flavonoid synthesis, we used GeneCalling …

Little is known about the range and the genetic bases of naturally occurring variation for
flavonoids. Using Arabidopsis thaliana seed as a model, the flavonoid content of 41 …

Recent research shows partially overlapping signal transduction pathways controlling
responses to wounding, insects, and pathogens. Chemical and behavioral assays show that …

Two compounds, the C-glycosyl flavone maysin and the phenylpropanoid product
chlorogenic acid (CGA), have been implicated in corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea Boddie) …