@article{PanduranganPajakMolnaretal.2012,
  author    = {Pandurangan, Sudhakar and Pajak, Agnieszka and Molnar, Stephen J. and Cober, Elroy R. and Dhaubhadel, Sangeeta and Hern{\´a}ndez-Sebasti{\`a}, Cinta and Kaiser, Werner M. and Nelson, Randall L. and Huber, Steven C. and Marsolais, Fr{\´e}d{\´e}ric},
  title     = {Relationship between asparagine metabolism and protein concentration in soybean seed},
  series = {Journal of Experimental Botany},
  volume    = {63},
  journal   = {Journal of Experimental Botany},
  number    = {8},
  doi       = {10.1093/jxb/ers039},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-126900},
  pages     = {3173-3184},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {The relationship between asparagine metabolism and protein concentration was investigated in soybean seed. Phenotyping of a population of recombinant inbred lines adapted to Illinois confirmed a positive correlation between free asparagine levels in developing seeds and protein concentration at maturity. Analysis of a second population of recombinant inbred lines adapted to Ontario associated the elevated free asparagine trait with two of four quantitative trait loci determining population variation for protein concentration, including a major one on chromosome 20 (linkage group I) which has been reported in multiple populations. In the seed coat, levels of asparagine synthetase were high at 50 mg and progressively declined until 150 mg seed weight, suggesting that nitrogenous assimilates are pre-conditioned at early developmental stages to enable a high concentration of asparagine in the embryo. The levels of asparaginase B1 showed an opposite pattern, being low at 50 mg and progressively increased until 150 mg, coinciding with an active phase of storage reserve accumulation. In a pair of genetically related cultivars, ∼2-fold higher levels of asparaginase B1 protein and activity in seed coat, were associated with high protein concentration, reflecting enhanced flux of nitrogen. Transcript expression analyses attributed this difference to a specific asparaginase gene, ASPGB1a. These results contribute to our understanding of the processes determining protein concentration in soybean seed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RostasEggert2008,
  author    = {Rost{\´a}s, Michael and Eggert, Katharina},
  title     = {Ontogenetic and spatio-temporal patterns of induced volatiles in Glycine max in the light of the optimal defence hypothesis},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-26991},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Plants attacked by herbivorous insects emit a blend of volatile compounds that serve as important host location cues for parasitoid wasps. Variability in the released blend may exist on the whole-plant and within-plant level and can affect the foraging efficiency of parasitoids. We comprehensively assessed the kinetics of herbivore-induced volatiles in soybean in the context of growth stage, plant organ, leaf age, and direction of signal transport. The observed patterns were used to test the predictions of the optimal defence hypothesis (OD). We found that plants in the vegetative stage emitted 10-fold more volatiles per biomass than reproductive plants and young leaves emitted >2.6 times more volatiles than old leaves. Systemic induction in single leaves was stronger and faster by one day in acropetal than in basipetal direction while no systemic induction was found in pods. Herbivore-damaged leaves had a 200-fold higher release rate than pods. To some extent these findings support the OD: i) indirect defence levels were increased in response to herbivory and ii) young leaves, which are more valuable, emitted more volatiles. However, the fact that reproductive structures emitted no constitutive or very few inducible volatiles is in seeming contrast to the OD predictions. We argue that in case of volatile emission the OD can only partially explain the patterns of defence allocation due to the peculiarity that volatiles act as signals not as toxins or repellents.},
  subject      = {Chemische {\"O}kologie},
  language  = {en}
}