{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zhao JY"],"funding":["the Excellent Doctoral Award of Shanxi Province for Scientific Research","the National Fund Cultivation Project of Sorghum Research Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University","the Professor and PHD Working Station in Jinzhong National Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone","the PhD Research Launch Project of Shanxi Agricultural University","the Science and Technology Innovation Teams of Shanxi Province","the Fundamental Research Program of Shanxi Province","the National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["218"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11856983"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The fall armyworm (FAW), <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i>, is one of the major agricultural pests that has invaded China. The FAW is a polyphagous insect with the gramineous crop sorghum being a key host plant. However, the basis of sorghum's chemical defense against FAW feeding is still unclear. In this study, we investigated the potential defensive mechanism of sorghum against this insect species. It was found that FAW larvae preferred maize over sorghum, the selection and damage rates for sorghum plants by larvae were significantly lower than those of maize plants, and feeding on sorghum restricted larval weight. The non-target metabolomics revealed that the feeding of FAW larvae altered the plant secondary metabolite spectra in maize and sorghum, resulting in species-specific differential "],"journal":["Insects"],"pubmed_title":["Fall Armyworm-Induced Secondary Metabolites in Sorghum Defend Against Its Attack."],"pmcid":["PMC11856983"],"funding_grant_id":["GLS-gp-202402","SXBYKY2022095","JZNGQBSGZZ001","32202391","2023BQ12","202203021212419","202304051001006"],"pubmed_authors":["Zhao JY","Ma R","Yang J","Sun LY","Hu J","Jia D","Zhang Y","Wang H","Wang Y","Lu Q","Sun J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Fall Armyworm-Induced Secondary Metabolites in Sorghum Defend Against Its Attack.","description":"The fall armyworm (FAW), <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i>, is one of the major agricultural pests that has invaded China. The FAW is a polyphagous insect with the gramineous crop sorghum being a key host plant. However, the basis of sorghum's chemical defense against FAW feeding is still unclear. In this study, we investigated the potential defensive mechanism of sorghum against this insect species. It was found that FAW larvae preferred maize over sorghum, the selection and damage rates for sorghum plants by larvae were significantly lower than those of maize plants, and feeding on sorghum restricted larval weight. The non-target metabolomics revealed that the feeding of FAW larvae altered the plant secondary metabolite spectra in maize and sorghum, resulting in species-specific differential ","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Feb","modification":"2025-04-03T23:14:01.472Z","creation":"2025-04-03T23:14:01.472Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11856983","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40003847"],"doi":["10.3390/insects16020218"]}}