Selenium accumulation protects Brassica juncea from invertebrate herbivory and fungal infection

New Phytologist

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 461-469

  Hanson, Brady ^a   Garifullina, Gulnara F ^a   Lindblom, Stormy Dawn ^a   Wangeline, Ami ^a   Ackley, Ashley ^a   Kramer, Karen ^b   Norton, Andrew P ^b   Lawrence, Christopher B ^b   Pilon Smits, Elizabeth A H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Plant Sciences Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alternaria brassicicola; Brassica juncea; Fusarium; Herbivory; Hyperaccumulation; Mesodon ferrissi; Pieris rapae; Selenium

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; HYPERACCUMULATION; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SELENIUM;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA JUNCEA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SP.; GASTROPODA; INFLECTARIUS FERRISSI; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MESODON; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS RAPAE; POLYGYRIDAE;

EID: 0042463691     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00786.x     Document Type: Article

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