Caterpillar-specific defense responses in plants

植物中毛毛虫特异性的防御反应

• 批准号: 261768-2008
• 负责人: Bede, Jacqueline
• 金额: $ 2.27万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=479997
• 关键词: Caterpillar; specific; defense; responses; plants

Agricultural crops provide food, forages and/or biofuels and may help to mitigate greenhouse gasses by acting as carbon sinks. Remarkably, sessile plants are subject to an vast and diverse arsenal of pests and diseases but manage to circumvent most of these onslaughts. However, when a plant is susceptible to a pest or pathogen, this can result in billions of dollars in damage. Understanding how plants co-ordinate and regulate their defense responses at the transcriptional, protein and metabolite levels is key to developing effective plant protection strategies, through breeding or metabolic engineering, that will lead to sustainable agricultural practices. Global cellular master regulators, which co-ordinate multiple pathways and are involved in controlling the endogenous plant defense response, provide a great opportunity to understand plant cellular regulation and provide tools to improve plant protection.

农作物提供食物、饲料和/或生物燃料，并可能通过充当碳汇来帮助减少温室气体。值得注意的是，无柄植物受到各种各样的害虫和疾病的影响，但却设法避开了大多数这些害虫和疾病。然而，当植物容易受到害虫或病原体的影响时，这可能导致数十亿美元的损失。了解植物如何在转录、蛋白质和代谢物水平上协调和调节其防御反应，是通过育种或代谢工程开发有效植物保护策略的关键，这将导致可持续的农业实践。全球细胞主调节剂，协调多个途径，并参与控制内源性植物防御反应，提供了一个很好的机会，了解植物细胞调节，并提供工具，以改善植物保护。