Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Responses in Cotton Plant to Apolygus lucorum Infestation.

ABSTRACT: With the wide-scale adoption of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton, Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) has become the most serious pest and has caused extensive yield loss in cotton production. However, little is known about the defense responses of cotton at the seedling stage to A. lucorum feeding. In this study, to elucidate the cotton defense mechanism, cotton leaves were damaged by A. lucorum for 0, 4, 12 and 24 h. The transcriptomic results showed that A. lucorum feeding elicits a rapid and strong defense response in gene expression during the whole infestation process in cotton plants. Further analysis revealed that at each assessment time, more differentially expressed genes were up-regulated than down-regulated. The integrated analysis of tr

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9025427 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature