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Understanding plant defence responses against herbivore attacks: an essential first step towards the development of sustainable resistance against pests

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Plant-herbivore relationships are complex interactions encompassing elaborate networks of molecules, signals and strategies used to overcome defences developed by each other. Herbivores use multiple feeding strategies to obtain nutrients from host plants. In turn, plants respond by triggering defence mechanisms to inhibit, block or modify the metabolism of the pest. As part of these defences, herbivore-challenged plants emit volatiles to attract natural enemies and warn neighbouring plants of the imminent threat. In response, herbivores develop a variety of strategies to suppress plant-induced protection. Our understanding of the plant-herbivore interphase is limited, although recent molecular approaches have revealed the participation of a battery of genes, proteins and volatile metabolites in attack-defence processes. This review describes the intricate and dynamic defence systems governing plant-herbivore interactions by examining the diverse strategies plants employ to deny phytophagous arthropods the ability to breach newly developed mechanisms of plant resistance. A cornerstone of this understanding is the use of transgenic tools to unravel the complex networks that control these interactions.

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Project funding by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain (AGL2011-23650), by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI-046) and by Ontario Research Fund- Global Leadership in Genomics and Life Sciences (GL2-01-035).

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  1. Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas UPM-INIA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus Montegancedo, 28223, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

    M. Estrella Santamaria, Manuel Martínez, Inés Cambra & Isabel Diaz

  2. Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada

    M. Estrella Santamaria & Vojislava Grbic

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Santamaria, M.E., Martínez, M., Cambra, I. et al. Understanding plant defence responses against herbivore attacks: an essential first step towards the development of sustainable resistance against pests. Transgenic Res 22, 697–708 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-013-9725-4

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