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Priming of elm and pine defence against herbivores (B01)

Subject Area Organismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems
Term from 2012 to 2021
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 190578797
 
Project B1 focuses on priming of elm and pine anti-herbivore defences. The project investigates by molecular and chemical methods how egg deposition by herbivorous insects primes plant defence against hatching larvae. A comparison of elm and pine priming mechanisms will elucidate the species-specificity of the processes. In pine, the project will further investigate how exposure of the tree to insect sex pheromones primes the tree’s defence against insect eggs. A comparison of egg-mediated priming of defence against larvae and pheromone-mediated priming of defence against insect eggs will elucidate how specifically different cues, which prime anti-herbivore defences, are acting.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution Freie Universität Berlin
 
 

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