Callose Production (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Callose Production

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When wheat is attacked by aphids, the plant produces a less toxic form of benzoxazinoids, which regulates callose production. Callose makes it difficult for aphids to take up plant sap.

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Beibei Li and Tobias Züst / University of Bern, Switzerland

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