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induced responses; Manduca sexta; mechanical damage; methyl jasmonate; Nicotiana attenuata; octadecanoid pathway; ontogenetic constraints; protease inhibitors; source-sink relations
Wound-induced changes; manduca-sexta larvae; proteinase- inhibitor; gene-expression; jasmonic acid; methyl jasmonate; lycopersicon-esculentum; transgenic tobacco; precursor protein; inducible defense
Abstract:
Protease inhibitors (PIs) are plant compounds that can inhibit proteases of mammal, insect, or pathogen origin and are frequently induced by mechanical wounding, insect feeding, or pathogen infection. Nicotiana attenuata is a species that induces nicoti
