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Elucidating the chemical ecology of belowground plant-plant communication
Reference
BBS/E/C/00005061
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor John Pickett
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Dr Michael Birkett
Institution
Rothamsted Research
Department
Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
72,631
Status
Completed
Type
Institute Project
Start date
01/04/2010
End date
31/03/2013
Duration
36 months
Abstract
Bean plants, Vicia faba, infested with pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum, induce indirect defence in neighbouring uninfested V. faba plants by increasing their attractiveness to the aphid parasitoid, Aphidius ervi. This project will elucidate the chemical ecology underlying the observed plant-plant signalling in V. faba that occurs following A. Pisum feeding and define the impact of the identified substances which induce the defence response (elicitors), upon the attraction of A. Ervi towards recipient plants.
Summary
unavailable
Committee
Not funded via Committee
Research Topics
Crop Science, Plant Science
Research Priority
X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative
X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme
X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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