Dehydration Stress Contributes to the Enhancement of Plant Defense Response and Mite Performance on Barley.

ABSTRACT: Under natural conditions, plants suffer different stresses simultaneously or in a sequential way. At present, the combined effect of biotic and abiotic stressors is one of the most important threats to crop production. Understanding how plants deal with the panoply of potential stresses affecting them is crucial to develop biotechnological tools to protect plants. As well as for drought stress, the economic importance of the spider mite on agriculture is expected to increase due to climate change. Barley is a host of the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae and drought produces important yield losses. To obtain insights on the combined effect of drought and mite stresses on the defensive response of this cereal, we have analyzed the transcriptomic responses of barley plants s

SUBMITTER: Santamaria ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898276 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature