Maize and Wheat Independently Evolved the Same Means to Defend Against Hungry Herbivores (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Maize and Wheat Independently Evolved the Same Means to Defend Against Hungry Herbivores (1 of 2)

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Wheat plants carrying a maize methyltransferase gene show altered defense regulation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 5th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by B. Li at University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Convergent evolution of a metabolic switch between aphid and caterpillar resistance in cereals."

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[Credit: Beibei Li and Tobias Züst, University of Bern]

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