Silencing jasmonate signalling and jasmonate-mediated defences reveals different survival strategies between two Nicotiana attenuata accessions

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3717-3732

  Steppuhn, Anke ^a   Schuman, Meredith C ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costs of defences; Genotypic plasticity; Nicotine; Plant defence; Secondary metabolites; Trypsin proteinase inhibitors

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; ESSENTIAL OIL; JASMONIC ACID; NICOTINE; OXYLIPIN; PLANT RNA; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CYCLOPENTANES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; LARVA; MANDUCA; NICOTINE; OILS, VOLATILE; OXYLIPINS; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS; UTAH;

COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; ORTHOPTERA; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 49249138681     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03862.x     Document Type: Article

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