Choice and No-Choice Assays for Testing the Resistance of A. thaliana to Chewing Insects

Name: Video: Choice and No-Choice Assays for Testing the Resistance of A. thaliana to Chewing Insects
Uploaded: 2008-05-14T16:15:00
Duration: 8 min 24 s
Description: 17.1K Views. Cornell University. Plant resistance to chewing insect herbivores can be tested in several ways. Here, we demonstrate how to set-up a choice and a no-choice experiment with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to identify resistance against the pest species Pieris rapae.

17.1K Views

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08:24 min

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May 14th, 2008

DOI :

10.3791/683-v

May 14th, 2008

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Martin De Vos¹, Georg Jander¹

¹Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University

Summary

Chapters in this video

0:08

Introduction

1:35

No Choice Experiment

4:37

Choice Experiment

7:47

Conclusion