Maize Stem Metabolome Responses to Short and Long-Term Corn Borer Attack

Víctor M. Rodríguez from the Misión Biológica de Galicia studied maize resistance to the Mediterranean corn borer. The research directly compared short-term (two-day) and long-term (nine-day) larval feeding to determine changes in stem antibiosis and characterize the metabolome. Results suggest systemic plant responses to stem tunneling are genotype-dependent.

Use Cases

• Classifying plant resistance phenotypes based on metabolomic profiles described in the study.
• Modeling genotype-dependent systemic responses to insect herbivory mentioned in the description.
• Identifying metabolic pathways that modulate plant resistance to stem borers, as stated in the research objectives.

Strengths

• Direct comparison of short-term (two-day) and long-term (nine-day) feeding responses is a core feature.
• Analysis includes both resistant and susceptible maize inbreds, allowing for genotype-dependent comparisons.
• The study characterizes the stem metabolome, a specific data type mentioned in the objectives.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Misión Biológica de Galicia

Collection Method

Experimental study comparing maize responses to Mediterranean corn borer larval feeding.