Insect-plant interactions

Analyzing the salivary proteins

Saliva of the hemipteroids is critical in enabling them to be voracious feeders on plants, including the economically important ones.

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A plethora of salivary enzymes is known to inflict stress in plants, either by degrading the plant tissue or by affecting their normal metabolism.

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We research on salivary proteins and their complexity because, they have extraordinary implications in the physiology of pathogen–plant interactions.