TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9746

#XL - R Botany

Constitutive defenses are costly to the plant. The production of secondary metabolites requires a significant energy investment derived from primary metabolism, which is then unavailable for use in growth and reproduction.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9747

#XL - R Botany

Inducible defense against pests or pathogens, involve both a wound response and the recognition of certain compounds abundant in the insect’s saliva or regurgitant. 

These compounds belong to a broad group of chemicals called elicitors

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9748

#XL - R Botany

Elicitors are HAMPs or herbivore- associated molecular patterns

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9749

#XL - R Botany

Elicitors found in insect saliva are fatty acid (18:3) –amino acid conjugates (or fatty acid amides)

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9750

#XL - R Botany

N-(17-hydroxylinolenoyl)-l-glutamine is an elicitor known as volicitin induces volatile secondary metabolites in maize plants.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9751

#XL - R Botany

Elicitor Caeliferins secreted by grasshoppers act as elicitors of jasmonic acid accumulation and ethylene emission