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SUBMITTER: Parent GJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6935585 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evolutionary applications 20191220 1
We review a recently discovered white spruce (<i>Picea glauca</i>) chemical defense against spruce budworm (<i>Choristoneura fumiferana)</i> involving hydroxyacetophenones. These defense metabolites detected in the foliage accumulate variably as the aglycons, piceol and pungenol, or the corresponding glucosides, picein and pungenin. We summarize current knowledge of the genetic, genomic, molecular, and biochemical underpinnings of this defense and its effects on <i>C. fumiferana</i>. We present ...[more]