Group of Plant-Insect Interactions (~ since April 2011)
Professor Ivan Galis (PI) Plant
defenses against insects evolved in a long term process of co-evolution between
plants and herbivorous insects. In this process, plants developed enormous
diversity in their chemical and mechanical defenses, and tuned regulation of
defense mechanism to optimize the distribution of plant resources between
defense and growth. Two main defense strategies of plants against insects include direct and indirect defense mechanisms.
In
the group, we focus on understanding of plant-herbivore interactions and
induction of direct and indirect defenses in plants at following levels:
Recognition of herbivore attack by plants and identification of
herbivore-specific elicitors Role and cross-talk of plant stress hormones in signal transduction of herbivory-related
signals: jasmonic
acid (JA), ethylene, salicylic
acid (SA) and abscisic
acid (ABA) Transcriptional regulation of plant responses to
herbivore attack and the role of transcription factors
(TFs) in defense Identification of novel secondary metabolites that
mediate defense against herbivores in monocot plants
〒710-0046 Group of Plant-Insect Interactions
Okayama University 2-20-1 Chuo, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046, Japan TEL: +81-86-434-1235 (Office I.G.) |
