Costs of defense are central to our understanding of interactions between organisms and
their environment, and defensive phenotypes of plants have long been considered to be …

Transcription factors (TFs) play a significant role in signal transduction networks spanning
the perception of a stress signal and the expression of corresponding stress-responsive …

Glucosinolates are secondary defense metabolites produced by plants of the order
Brassicales, which includes the model species Arabidopsis and many crop species. In the …

Plants produce diverse specialized metabolites (SMs), but the genes responsible for their
production and regulation remain largely unknown, hindering efforts to tap plant …

Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach to combat pests (including
herbivores, pathogens, and weeds) using a combination of preventive and curative actions …

The present study is a systematic review of the scientific literature reporting content,
composition and biosynthesis of glucosinolates (GLS), and their derivative compounds in …

When insect herbivores attack plants, elicitors from oral secretions and regurgitants (OS)
enter wounds during feeding, eliciting defense responses. These generally require plant …

Genes encode information that determines an organism's fitness. Yet we know little about
whether genes of one species influence the persistence of interacting species in an …

Incidence of natural light stress renders it important to enhance our understanding of the
mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from harmful effects of UV-B irradiation, as …

Identifying the genetic basis of local adaptation and fitness trade-offs across environments is
a central goal of evolutionary biology. Cold acclimation is an adaptive plastic response for …