Ethylene signaling modulates herbivore-induced defense responses in the model legume Medicago truncatula

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 569-579

  Paudel, Jamuna Risal ^a   Bede, Jacqueline C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NOCTUIDAE; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID; OXYLIPIN; PHYTOHORMONE; SALICYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL; BARREL MEDIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPODOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYCLOPENTANES; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYLIPINS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SALICYLIC ACID; SALIVA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPODOPTERA;

EID: 84930356490     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-10-14-0348-R     Document Type: Article

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