Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
3 |
1 |
8 |
15 weeks |
120 hours |
Instructor
Celso Omoto
Objective
1. To teach concepts of plant resistance to insects and insect-plant interaction. 2. Demonstrate plant
defense strategies and insect responses to these defenses. 3. Promote critical discussion of current
scientific literature and advances in the field.
Content
I. History and concepts of plant resistance to insects; II. Types of insect-plant interactions, herbivory
ecology and manipulation of plant resources by insects; III. Plant defense strategies: acquired
resistance, gene-to-gene resistance, indirect defense, constitutive resistance and induced resistance; IV.
Concepts of plant resistance, types of resistance: antixenosis, antibiosis and tolerance; V. Physical,
chemical and morphological aspects of plant resistance, plant secondary metabolites; VI. Biotic and
abiotic factors that determine plant resistance; VII. Insecticidal plants; VIII. Conventional and and
biotechnological genetic improvement of plants; IX. Plant immune system: the jasmonic acid and
salicylic acid pathways; X. Biochemical defense pathways of insects to plant compounds; XI.
Identification of elicitors, effectors and plant defense molecules and the applicability of these molecules
for the development of plants resistant to insects; XII.“Omics” and gene editing for plant resistance
studies; XIII. Plant-pathogen-insect interaction; XIV. Tritrophic interactions; XV. Integration of plant
resistance in IPM programs.
Bibliography
Baldin, E.L.L.; Vendramim, J.D.; Lourenção, A.L. (2019). Resistência de plantas: a insetos fundamentos
e aplicações. Fealq.
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (2017). Special issue – Insect‐plant interactions: host selection,
herbivory, and plant resistance. Disponível em:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15707458/2017/162/1
Fritz, R.S.; Simms, E.L. (1992). Plant resistance to herbivores and pathogens: ecology, evolution and
genetics. University of Chicago Press.
Smith, C.M. (2005). Plant resistance to arthropods molecular and conventional approaches. Springer.
Voelckel, C., Jander, G. (2014). Annual plant reviews, Insect-plant interactions (Vol. 47). John Wiley &
Sons.
Walters, D.R. (2011). Plant defense: Warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores, and parasitic plants.
Wiley-Blackwell.
Walters, D.; Newton, A. Lyon, G. (2007). Induced resistance for plant defence: A sustainable approach
to crop protection. Blackwell Publishing.