Associate Professor McGill University Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
Plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses require prioritizing different pathways to appropriate regulate metabolic flux into defenses. Some caterpillar species have honed into this “cross-talk” and evolved strategies to manipulate plant signaling pathways to minimize induced plant responses. I present an overview of our research that focusing on the labial saliva effectors of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, from the effect of labial saliva on the plant induced resistance to the effect of dietary nutritional quality on caterpillar salivary glucose oxidase gene expression and activity.
