A gall-inducing caterpillar species increases essential fatty acid content of its host plant without concomitant increases in phytohormone levels

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 551-559

  Tooker, John F ^a   De Moraes, Consuelo M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

12 OXOPHYTODIENOIC ACID; 12-OXOPHYTODIENOIC ACID; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID; JASMONIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; OXYLIPIN; PHYTOHORMONE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT TUMOR; SOLIDAGO; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANIMALS; CYCLOPENTANES; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINOLEIC ACIDS; MOTHS; OXYLIPINS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT TUMORS; SOLIDAGO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS VAR. SCABRA;

EID: 66149112549     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-5-0551     Document Type: Article

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