Expression data from wheat following Hessian fly larval attack.

The Hessian fly (HF, Mayetiola destructor) is a biotrophic insect that interacts with wheat on a typical gene-for-gene basis. Identification of the genes which are differentially expressed during wheat-HF interactions may provide critical information to better understand the plant resistance mechanisms. Microarray analyses of transcripts, including those encoding various lipases, lipid transfer proteins, enzymes involved in oxylipin synthesis, and enzymes involved in wax and cutin synthesis, revealed that the abundance of many of these transcripts increased rapidly in resistant plants after HF attack, but did not change in susceptible plants.

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Zhu L, Liu X, Wang H, Khajuria C, Reese JC, Whitworth RJ, Welti R, Chen MS