Caterpillar attack triggers accumulation of the toxic maize protein RIP2

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 928-939

  Chuang, Wen Po ^a   Herde, Marco ^b   Ray, Swayamjit ^c   Castano Duque, Lina ^c   Howe, Gregg A ^d   Luthe, Dawn S ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Frass; Induced defenses; Induced herbivore resistance; Maize (Zea mays); Ribosome inactivating protein 2; Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm)

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; CATERPILLAR; DIGESTION; HERBIVORE; MAIZE; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; RECOMBINATION; TOXICITY;

HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; ZEA MAYS;

PHYTOHORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN 2; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN 2, MAIZE; RIBOSOME-INACTIVATING PROTEIN 2, MAIZE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FRASS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDUCED DEFENSES; INDUCED HERBIVORE RESISTANCE; LARVA; MAIZE; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS); METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; RIBOSOME-INACTIVATING PROTEIN 2; SPODOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA (FALL ARMYWORM); TIME;

FRASS; INDUCED DEFENSES; INDUCED HERBIVORE RESISTANCE; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS); RIBOSOME-INACTIVATING PROTEIN 2; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA (FALL ARMYWORM);

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HERBIVORY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LARVA; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT LEAVES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 2; SPODOPTERA; TIME FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84891902685     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12581     Document Type: Article

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