Sentence examples for class of defense from inspiring English sources

Terpenes are an important class of defense compounds that accumulate in plants after pathogen infection or arthropod-induced injury.

Thaumatin-like proteins and chitinases may be an unrecognized class of defense products which have significant contributions to plant defense against insect feeding.

Isoflavonoids comprise a class of defense compounds found mostly in legumes.

One of these layers, Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI), acts inside the cell via proteins encoded by a class of defense genes called R genes [ 6].

G. clavigera is very aggressive and it may be capable of detoxifying terpenoids that are an important class of defense compounds in pines (DiGuistini et al. 2011).

Among them is resveratrol (RES), which belongs to a class of defense molecules called phytoalexins and is produced in a wide variety of plants (including grapes, peanuts, and mulberries) in response to stress, injury, UV irradiation, and fungal infection [ 1].

In this paper, we study a new class of defense-oriented evolved worms, the Varying Scan Rate worm (the VSR worm in short).

In our analysis another prominent class of defense-related genes was represented by protease inhibitors.

The small proteins encoded by the transcripts were shown to bind dsDNA, and the family was designated as a new class of defense-related nucleic acid binding proteins [ 7].

Environmental pressures forced plants to diversify specialized metabolisms to accumulate noxious molecules such as alkaloids constituting one of the largest classes of defense metabolites.

By exploring a broad range of immune and suicide efficacies in combination with variable degrees of population structure (from a well-mixed population to a fully structured population with no migration), simulations reveal a spectrum of evolutionary behaviors characterized by the acquisition of one, two or all three classes of defense mechanisms.