Maize toxin degrades peritrophic matrix proteins and stimulates compensatory transcriptome responses in fall armyworm midgut

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 280-291

  Fescemyer, Howard W ^a   Sandoya, Germán V ^a,d   Gill, Torrence A ^b   Ozkan, Seval ^c   Marden, James H ^a   Luthe, Dawn S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory response; Cysteine protease; Gene expression; Host plant resistance; Mucin; Plant herbivore interaction; Spodoptera frugiperda; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; INSECT PROTEIN; MUCIN; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MAIZE; METABOLISM; SPODOPTERA;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE PROTEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HERBIVORY; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MUCINS; PLANT PROTEINS; SPODOPTERA; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84873270093     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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