Turning the 'mustard oil bomb' into a 'cyanide bomb': Aromatic glucosinolate metabolism in a specialist insect herbivore

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Stauber, Einar J ^a   Kuczka, Petrissa ^a   van Ohlen, Maike ^a   Vogt, Birgit ^a   Janowitz, Tim ^b   Piotrowski, Markus ^b   Beuerle, Till ^a   Wittstock, Ute ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; BENZYLGLUCOSINOLATE; BETA CYANOALANINE SYNTHETASE; CYANIDE; GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSINOLATE; NITRILASE; SYNTHETASE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BENZYLGLUCOSINOLIC ACID; HYDROLASE; INSECT PROTEIN; NITRILE; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOGLYCOSIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARABIDOPSIS; AROMA; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ASSAY; FUMIGATION; HERBIVORE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PIERIS RAPAE; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT METABOLISM; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; HYDROXYLATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROSOME; NASTURTIUM; PLANT LEAF; TROPAEOLACEAE;

AMINOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BUTTERFLIES; FECES; GLUCOSINOLATES; HERBIVORY; HYDROXYLATION; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MICROSOMES; NASTURTIUM; NITRILES; PLANT LEAVES; THIOCYANATES; THIOGLUCOSIDES; TROPAEOLUM;

EID: 84859983463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035545     Document Type: Article

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