systemin

Systemin is a wound-signaling peptide that mediates defenses of tomato plants against herbivorous insects. Perception of systemin… (More)

The systemic accumulation of both hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) and proteinase inhibitor proteins in tomato leaves in response to… (More)

Seven small (approximately 6,000 D) wound-inducible proteinase inhibitor proteins were isolated from leaves of pepper (Capsicum… (More)

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) generated in response to wounding can be detected at wound sites and in distal leaf veins within 1 hr… (More)

In tomato plants, systemic induction of defense genes in response to herbivory or mechanical wounding is regulated by an 18-amino… (More)

Phospholipase A (PLA) activity, as measured by the accumulation of (14)C-lysophosphatidylcholine in leaves of tomato plants… (More)

We investigated the relationship between the expression of lipoxygenase (LOX) genes and the systemin-dependent wound response in… (More)

Salicylic acid (SA) and acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), previously shown to inhibit proteinase inhibitor synthesis induced by… (More)

Tomato plants overexpressing a prosystemin gene that encodes the precursor of a mobile wound signal called systemin have been… (More)

A gene that encodes systemin, a mobile 18-amino acid polypeptide inducer of proteinase inhibitor synthesis in tomato and potato… (More)