New Insights into Plant and Insect Interactions (Second Edition)
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 February 2025 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: insect–plant interactions; herbivore-induced plant defense; defense-related signaling
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Dear Colleagues,
To protect themselves from herbivorous insects, plants have developed sophisticated defense mechanisms. When attacked by herbivorous insects, plants promptly and specifically perceive damage- and insect-associated molecular patterns via pattern recognition receptor complexes and then activate multiple signaling pathways, such as pathways mediated by mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades, jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, abscisic acid, and ethylene. These activated pathways enhance the expression of defensive genes and the production of defensive compounds, thereby increasing the direct and indirect resistance of plants to insects. On the other hand, adapted herbivorous insects can detoxify or tolerate plant toxins via specific detoxification systems and secrete effectors into plants to suppress the defensive responses in plants or enhance plant susceptibility. Deciphering the mechanisms underlying insect–plant interactions is very important for sustainable management of insect pests. This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles that present recent advances in this field, with a focus on the molecular mechanisms related to plant defensive response, insect elicitors and effectors, and insect detoxification. We expect to publish 18 to 20 research articles and review articles in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Yonggen Lou
Dr. Xiaoling Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant defense responses
- elicitors
- effectors
- defense-related signaling
- insect–plant interactions
- tritrophic interactions
- detoxification
- defensive compounds
- defensive genes
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