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Plant defense against herbivores: chemical aspectsAxel Mithofer
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Annu Rev Plant Biol 63:431-50. 2012..Recognizing the herbivore challenge and precise timing of plant activities as well as the adaptive modulation of the plants' metabolism is important so that metabolites and energy may be efficiently allocated to defensive activities...
Biotic and heavy metal stress response in plants: evidence for common signalsAxel Mithofer
Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Bioorganische Chemie, Beutenberg Campus, Hans Knöll Str 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
FEBS Lett 566:1-5. 2004..Oxylipins represent new endogenous signals involved in biotic- and abiotic-induced stress responses...- Cation fluxes cause plasma membrane depolarization involved in beta-glucan elicitor-signaling in soybean rootsAxel Mithofer
Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Bioorganische Chemie, Hans Knöll Str 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:983-90. 2005..Contrasting other systems, in soybean the main cause for elicitor-induced plasma membrane depolarization is the activation of cation instead of anion fluxes... 
Recognition of herbivory-associated molecular patternsAxel Mithofer
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Bioorganic Chemistry, Jena, Germany
Plant Physiol 146:825-31. 2008- Carnivorous pitcher plants: insights in an old topicAxel Mithofer
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knöll Str 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
Phytochemistry 72:1678-82. 2011.... - Coronalon: a powerful tool in plant stress physiologyGöde Schüler
Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Hans Knöll Str 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
FEBS Lett 563:17-22. 2004..Moreover, coronalon might become employed in agriculture to elicit plant resistance against various aggressors... - CML42-mediated calcium signaling coordinates responses to Spodoptera herbivory and abiotic stresses in ArabidopsisJyothilakshmi Vadassery
Departments of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 07745 Jena, Germany
Plant Physiol 159:1159-75. 2012..Under drought stress, the level of abscisic acid accumulation was higher in cml42 plants. Thus, CML42 might serve as a Ca²⁺ sensor having multiple functions in insect herbivory defense and abiotic stress responses... - Effects of feeding Spodoptera littoralis on lima bean leaves. II. Continuous mechanical wounding resembling insect feeding is sufficient to elicit herbivory-related volatile emissionAxel Mithofer
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Plant Physiol 137:1160-8. 2005.... - Direct proof of ingested food regurgitation by Spodoptera littoralis caterpillars during feeding on ArabidopsisJyothilakshmi Vadassery
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
J Chem Ecol 38:865-72. 2012..This suggests that S. littoralis larvae do not adjust regurgitation to the state of plant defense... - Microbial oligosaccharides differentially induce volatiles and signalling components in Medicago truncatulaMargit Leitner
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department Bioorganic Chemistry, Jena, Germany
Phytochemistry 69:2029-40. 2008..However, similarities between defence reactions induced by herbivory and pathogen-derived elicitors could be ascertained; but also Nod-factors were able to trigger defence-related reactions... - Alamethicin-induced electrical long distance signaling in plantsHeiko Maischak
Bioorganische Chemie, Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Jena, Germany
Plant Signal Behav 5:988-90. 2010..Here we show that both local and long-distance electrical signals, namely depolarization, can be induced by ALA treatment... - Herbivore-induced terpenoid emission in Medicago truncatula: concerted action of jasmonate, ethylene and calcium signalingGen Ichiro Arimura
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knoll Strasse 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
Planta 227:453-64. 2008..Thus, ethylene contributes to the herbivory-induced terpenoid biosynthesis at least twice: by modulating both early signaling events such as cytoplasmic Ca2+-influx and the downstream JA-dependent biosynthesis of terpenoids... - Does mycorrhization influence herbivore-induced volatile emission in Medicago truncatula?Margit Leitner
Department Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knöll Str 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
Mycorrhiza 20:89-101. 2010..truncatula against insect herbivores. The impact of this effect strongly depends on the genetic background of the plant and, hence, in part explains the highly contradictory results on tripartite interactions gathered to date... - Negative ion mode matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometric analysis of oligosaccharides using halide adducts and 9-aminoacridine matrixJana Becher
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 22:1153-8. 2008..The value of the new method to solve biological problems has been demonstrated by the analysis of a mixture of beta-glucane elicitors isolated from the cell walls of Phytophthora sojae... - Functional characterization of a class III acid endochitinase from the traps of the carnivorous pitcher plant genus, NepenthesSandy Rottloff
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Hans Knoll Strasse 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
J Exp Bot 62:4639-47. 2011..These results suggest that in the pitchers' tissues, the endochitinase as well as other proteins from the pitcher fluid might fulfil a different, primary function as pathogenesis-related proteins... - A novel Dps-type protein from insect gut bacteria catalyses hydrolysis and synthesis of N-acyl amino acidsLiyan Ping
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knöll Str 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
Environ Microbiol 9:1572-83. 2007..The participation of a microbial enzyme in the homeostasis of N-acyl-glutamines in the insect gut adds further complexity to the interaction between plants and their herbivores... - Regulation of extrafloral nectar secretion by jasmonates in lima bean is light dependentVenkatesan Radhika
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:17228-33. 2010..These results demonstrate that in lima bean, the light environment modulates the plant's response to jasmonates as well as JA-Ile biosynthesis, which controls the subsequent EFN secretion... - Micropreparation of single secretory glands from the carnivorous plant NepenthesSandy Rottloff
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knöll Str 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Anal Biochem 394:135-7. 2009..The procedure described is adaptable to a broad range of plant species and should find wide application in the preparation of multicellular glands or other tissues... - Probing Spatio-temporal Intracellular Calcium Variations in PlantsAxel Mithofer
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department Bioorganic Chemistry, Hans Knöll Str 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Methods Mol Biol 479:79-92. 2009..Two of these methods, namely bio-luminescence and fluorescence in combination with confocal laser scanning microscopy, are presented... - Oral secretions from herbivorous lepidopteran larvae exhibit ion channel-forming activitiesHeiko Maischak
Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Hans Knöll Str 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
FEBS Lett 581:898-904. 2007..Since ion fluxes and depolarization are early responses upon insect feeding, OS-derived components may be involved in the elicitation process by direct interaction with the plant membranes... - Secreted pitfall-trap fluid of carnivorous Nepenthes plants is unsuitable for microbial growthFranziska Buch
Department Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knöll Straße 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
Ann Bot 111:375-83. 2013..Thus, Nepenthes plants can avoid and control, at least to some extent, the microbial colonization of their pitfall traps and, thereby, reduce the need to vie with microbes for the prey-derived nutrients... - Jasmonates trigger prey-induced formation of 'outer stomach' in carnivorous sundew plantsYoko Nakamura
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knoll Strasse 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
Proc Biol Sci 280:20130228. 2013..These results suggest that in carnivorous sundew plants the jasmonate cascade might have been adapted to facilitate carnivory rather than to defend against herbivores... - Multiple calmodulin-like proteins in Arabidopsis are induced by insect-derived (Spodoptera littoralis) oral secretionJyothilakshmi Vadassery
Bioorganische Chemie, Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Jena, Germany
Plant Signal Behav 7:1277-80. 2012..Our data indicate that signaling networks involving multiple CMLs very likely have important functions in plant defense against insect herbivores, in addition to their involvement in many other stress-induced processes in plants...