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Profiling the response of plants to herbivorous insects
1Department of Plant Pathology, 217 Plant Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. kkorth@uark.edu
Genome Biology
|July 8, 2003
Abstract:
Microarray analysis has confirmed that many of the modifications of gene expression that occur in plants following attack by herbivorous insects can be accounted for by the effects of compounds (elicitors) released by chewing insects. Recent experiments have revealed coordinated up- and down-regulation of transcripts encoding proteins with related functions, suggesting that large-scale shifts in metabolism take place in insect-damaged plants.