Transcriptome response analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana to leafminer (Liriomyza huidobrensis).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plants have evolved a complicated resistance system and exhibit a variety of defense patterns in response to different attackers. Previous studies have shown that responses of plants to chewing insects and phloem-feeding insects are significantly different. Less is known, however, regarding molecular responses to leafminer insects. To investigate plant transcriptome response to leafminers, we selected the leafminer Liriomyza huidobrensis, which has a special feeding pattern more similar to pathogen damage than that of chewing insects, as a model insect, and Arabidopsis thaliana as a response plant.

Results

We first investigated local and systemic responses of A. thaliana to leafminer feeding using an Affymetrix ATH1 genome array. Genes related to metabolic process

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3564828 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature