Tissue-specific plant-herbivore interactions
식물과 곤충의 조직특이적 상호작용에 대한 연구
A single plant needs to cope with different types of herbivore at the same time. Thus, plants have to cope with different types of herbivores. Interestingly, many herbivores have their preference in feeding sites, e.g. leaf chewers, phloem feeders, leaf miners, stem-borer, root feeders, gall-inducing insects, etc. Although herbivores attack almost every tissue of plants, how plants defend each tissue is relatively less known except leaf-feeding herbivores. Moreover, co-occurring insects regard to coexist when they are temporally and spatially divergent stably. However, many insects sharing a common host plant are also in competition with one another, regardless of niche overlap or ecological similarity. A single plant need to cope with different types of herbivore at the same time. Therefore, tissue-specific plant defense and plant-mediated herbivore interactions are one of the most important factors to understand complex plant-herbivore community in nature.
P articularly, as the life of endophytic herbivores is not easily visible, interactions between plants and endophytic herbivores are largely unknown. However, there are many severe endophytic pests of crops and most of endophytic herbivores are hard to be controlled by classical pest managements. Interestingly, mortality of endophytic herbivores are more strongly depend on plant-associated factors than that of exophytic herbivores. Therefore, understanding the plant defense responses against endophytic herbivore attacks is essential to manage those endophytic herbivores efficiently. Currently, Dr. Bo Eun Nam, Dr. Junsub Lim, Gwanhyung Yoo, and Jong-Hun Noh is interested in novel plant defenses against the endophytic herbivores and its eco-evolutionary consequences related to plant flowering time.
This research is currently supported by NRF grant (우수신진연구)
P articularly, as the life of endophytic herbivores is not easily visible, interactions between plants and endophytic herbivores are largely unknown. However, there are many severe endophytic pests of crops and most of endophytic herbivores are hard to be controlled by classical pest managements. Interestingly, mortality of endophytic herbivores are more strongly depend on plant-associated factors than that of exophytic herbivores. Therefore, understanding the plant defense responses against endophytic herbivore attacks is essential to manage those endophytic herbivores efficiently. Currently, Dr. Bo Eun Nam, Dr. Junsub Lim, Gwanhyung Yoo, and Jong-Hun Noh is interested in novel plant defenses against the endophytic herbivores and its eco-evolutionary consequences related to plant flowering time.
This research is currently supported by NRF grant (우수신진연구)