Eli J. Borrego

TL;DR: It is shown that products and signals derived from a single Zea mays (maize) lipoxygenase (LOX), ZmLOX10, are critical for both direct and indirect defenses to herbivory, and that LOX10-dependent metabolites confer immunity against insect attack.

TL;DR: It is suggested that resistance might be caused by allelic variation at the level of both gene expression and amino acid sequence, thus resulting in differences in levels of lignin and other metabolites of the phenylpropanoid pathway and regulation of programmed cell death.

TL;DR: The positive effects of PGPR inoculation occurred concurrently with the onset of water deficit, demonstrating the potential of the PGPR identified from this bioprospecting pipeline for use in crop production systems under drought stress.

TL;DR: A Raman spectroscopic technique is developed for high-throughput stress phenotyping of plants and a unique negative correlation in concentration levels of anthocyanins and carotenoids is found, which clearly indicates that plant stress response is fine-tuned to protect against stress-induced damages.

TL;DR: A model that differential regulation of 12-OPDA and JA in response to T. virens colonization results in ISR induction is proposed, which shows that a maize 13-lipoxygenase mutant, lox10, colonized by the wild-type T. Virens (TvWT) lacked ISR response against Colletotrichum graminicola but instead displayed induced systemic susceptibility.