PLANT SCIENCE: New Gene Boosts Plant's Defenses Against Pests

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Science 23 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5743, p. 1976
DOI: 10.1126/science.309.5743.1976b

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PLANT SCIENCE:
New Gene Boosts Plant's Defenses Against Pests

Elizabeth Pennisi

The insertion of a strawberry gene into the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana leads to two new compounds that attract predatory mites that devour herbivorous spider mites, researchers report on page 2070 of this issue of Science.

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REPORTS Genetic Engineering of Terpenoid Metabolism Attracts Bodyguards to Arabidopsis: Iris F. Kappers, Asaph Aharoni, Teun W. J. M. van Herpen, Ludo L. P. Luckerhoff, Marcel Dicke, and Harro J. Bouwmeester (23 September 2005)
Science 309 (5743), 2070. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1116232]
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