D. Leybourne

Drought stress increases the expression of barley defence genes with negative consequences for infesting cereal aphids

This study shows drought stress increases barley defense gene expression, which negatively affects cereal aphid fitness and population dynamics.

Non-host and poor-host resistance against aphids may reside in different plant cell layers depending on the plant species-aphid species interaction

The paper shows that aphid resistance in non-host and poor-host interactions occurs in different plant cell layers, depending on the plant and aphid species involved.