Antagonistic Plant Defense System Regulated by Phytohormones Assists Interactions Among Vector Insect, Thrips and a Tospovirus

Phytohormones Assists Interactions Among Vector Insect, Thrips and a Tospovirus Hiroshi Abe*, Yasuhiro Tomitaka, Takeshi Shimoda, Shigemi Seo, Tamito Sakurai, Soichi Kugimiya, Shinya Tsuda* and Masatomo Kobayashi Experimental Plant Division, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, 305-0074 Japan National Agricultural Research Center, Tsukuba, 305-8666 Japan National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8666 Japan National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region, Morioka, 020-0198 Japan National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8604 Japan *Corresponding authors: Hiroshi Abe, E-mail, ahiroshi@rtc.riken.jp; Fax: +81-29-83-9053; Shinya Tsuda, E-mail, shinyat@affrc.go.jp; Fax: +81-29-836-9053. (Received September 2, 2011; Accepted November 16, 2011)