Insect herbivory activates plant defense mechanisms and releases a blend of herbivore-induced volatiles (HIPVs). These volatile compounds may be involved in plant-plant communication induce response undamaged plants. In this work, we investigated whether the exposure sweet pepper plants to HIPVs [ (Z) -3-hexenol, -3-hexenyl acetate, propanoate, butanoate, hexyl methyl salicylate jasmonate] immu...

Phytohormone applications are used to mimic herbivory and can induce plant defences. This study investigated (i) metabolomic changes in leaf tissues of Jacobaea vulgaris J. aquatica after methyl jasmonate (MeJA) salicylic acid (SA) (ii) the effects on a leaf-chewing, leaf-mining piercing-sucking herbivore. MeJA treated leaves showed clearly different profiles than control leaves, while differen...

Using RT-PCR and RACE-PCR strategies, we cloned and identified a new chemosensory protein (FoccCSP) from the Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, a species for which no chemosensory protein (CSP) has yet been identified. The FoccCSP gene contains a 387 bp open-reading frame encoding a putative protein of 128 amino acids with a molecular weight of 14.51 kDa and an isoelectric point...