Medicago truncatula mutants demonstrate the role of plant calcium oxalate crystals as an effective defense against chewing insects

Plant Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 188-195

  Korth, Kenneth L ^a   Doege, Sarah J ^a   Park, Sang Hyuck ^a   Goggin, Fiona L ^a   Wang, Qin ^a   Gomez, S Karen ^a,d   Liu, Guangjie ^a,b   Jia, Lingling ^a   Nakata, Paul A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b CHINA NATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; MUTAGENS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CALCIUM OXALATE CRYSTALS; CHEWING INSECTS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA MUTANTS;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS;

BIOMASS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; INSECTS; PLANTS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PISUM SATIVUM; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

EID: 33745454546     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.076737     Document Type: Article

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