The plant hormone jasmonate coordinates immune and growth responses to increase plant
survival in unpredictable environments. The core jasmonate signaling pathway comprises …

Hemipterans (such as aphids, whiteflies, and leafhoppers) are some of the most devastating
insect pests due to the numerous plant pathogens they transmit as vectors, which are …

It has been suggested that effective defense against biotrophic pathogens is largely due to
programmed cell death in the host, and to associated activation of defense responses …

Herbivorous insects use diverse feeding strategies to obtain nutrients from their host plants.
Rather than acting as passive victims in these interactions, plants respond to herbivory with …

Plants inhabit environments crowded with infectious microbes that pose constant threats to
their survival. Necrotrophic pathogens are notorious for their aggressive and wide-ranging …

Plant cell walls have the remarkable property of combining extreme tensile strength with
extensibility. The maintenance of such an exoskeleton creates nontrivial challenges for the …

The plant hormone jasmonate (JA) exerts direct control over the production of chemical
defense compounds that confer resistance to a remarkable spectrum of plant-associated …

Plant defenses against pathogens and insects are regulated differentially by cross-
communicating signaling pathways in which salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), and …

Salicylic acid (SA) has been proposed to antagonize jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis and
signaling. We report, however, that in salicylate hydroxylase-expressing tobacco (Nicotiana …

The basal defenses important in curtailing the development of the phloem-feeding silverleaf
whitefly (Bemisia tabaci type B; SLWF) on Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) were …