Plant metabolomics in biotic and abiotic stress: a critical overview

A Anzano, G Bonanomi, S Mazzoleni… - Phytochemistry Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Abiotic and biotic stresses affect plant physiology and growth. The development of
metabolomics, along with other-omics technologies, allowed in depth analysis of the …

Altering plant defenses: herbivore-associated molecular patterns and effector arsenal of chewing herbivores

S Basu, S Varsani, J Louis - Molecular Plant-Microbe …, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
Chewing herbivores, such as caterpillars and beetles, while feeding on the host plant, cause
extensive tissue damage and release a wide array of cues to alter plant defenses …

Wide-Range Portrayal of AP2/ERF Transcription Factor Family in Maize (Zea mays L.) Development and Stress Responses

C Cheng, L An, F Li, W Ahmad, M Aslam, MZ Ul Haq… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The APETALA2/Ethylene-Responsive Transcriptional Factors containing conservative
AP2/ERF domains constituted a plant-specific transcription factor (TF) superfamily, called …

(+)‐Catechin, epicatechin and epigallocatechin gallate are important inducible defensive compounds against Ectropis grisescens in tea plants

X Li, J Zhang, S Lin, Y Xing, X Zhang… - Plant, Cell & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tea plant, Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze, is an economically important, perennial
woody plant rich in catechins. Although catechins have been reported to play an important …

Information arms race explains plant-herbivore chemical communication in ecological communities

P Zu, K Boege, E Del-Val, MC Schuman, PC Stevenson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Plants emit an extraordinary diversity of chemicals that provide information about their
identity and mediate their interactions with insects. However, most studies of this have …

ZmMYC2s play important roles in maize responses to simulated herbivory and jasmonate

C Ma, R Li, Y Sun, M Zhang, S Li, Y Xu… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Both herbivory and jasmonic acid (JA) activate the biosynthesis of defensive metabolites in
maize, but the mechanism underlying this remains unclear. We generated maize mutants in …

The Asian corn borer Ostrinia furnacalis feeding increases the direct and indirect defence of mid‐whorl stage commercial maize in the field

J Guo, J Qi, K He, J Wu, S Bai, T Zhang… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Asian corn borer (Ostrinia furnacalis Guenée) is a destructive pest of maize
(Zea mays L.). Despite large‐scale commercial maize production, little is known about the …

Progressive chromatin silencing of ABA biosynthesis genes permits seed germination in Arabidopsis

D Yang, F Zhao, D Zhu, X Chen, X Kong, Y Wu… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Seed germination represents a major developmental switch in plants that is vital to
agriculture, but how this process is controlled at the chromatin level remains obscure. Here …

Relative contribution of LOX10, green leaf volatiles and JA to wound-induced local and systemic oxylipin and hormone signature in Zea mays (maize)

Y He, EJ Borrego, Z Gorman, PC Huang, MV Kolomiets - Phytochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Green leaf volatiles (GLVs) and jasmonates (JAs) are the best-characterized groups of fatty
acid-derived oxylipin signals that regulate wound-associated defenses. Beyond these two …

Herbivore‐induced volatile blends with both “fast” and “slow” components provide robust indirect defence in nature

Y Joo, MC Schuman, JK Goldberg, SG Kim… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plants emit volatile blends specific to particular herbivore interactions, which predators and
parasitoids learn to associate with prey, increasing herbivore mortality and thereby plant …