systemin

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

Summary Plant defences against insect herbivores can be divided into ‘static’ or constitutive defences, and ‘active’ or induced… Expand

The isolation to homogeneity of the 160-kDa systemin cell-surface receptor (SR160) from plasma membranes of suspension cultured… Expand

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

Systemin, an 18-amino-acid polypeptide released from wound sites on tomato leaves caused by insects or other mechanical damage… Expand

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

In response to wounding, a 48-kDa myelin basic protein (MBP) kinase is activated within 2 min, both locally and systemically, in… Expand

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

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

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