Generalist and specialist lepidopteran larvae elicit different transcriptional responses in Nicotiana attenuata, which correlate with larval FAC profiles

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 770-775

  Voelckel, Claudia ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elicitors; Fatty acid amino acid conjugates; Induced plant defence; Noctuidae; Sphingidae

Indexed keywords

GENERALIST; HERBIVORE; PLANT DEFENSE; SPECIALIST;

ANIMALIA; HELIOTHIS; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NOCTUIDAE; SPHINGIDAE; SPODOPTERA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

EID: 4444232559     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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