Welcome to Crop Resistance to Insects Lab
Crop Resistance to Insects Lab is established to learn how insect-resistant crops respond to abiotic and biotic stresses. We are located at Phytotron, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. We are interested in plant-insect interaction, plant resistance to insects, and plant defense mechanism. PI (Dr. Wen-Po Chuang) is a specialized agronomist who also has very strong background in entomology and chemical ecology. We want to use more agronomist view to understand plant-insect interaction and also use plant molecular biologist view to study the plant defense mechanism. Our goal is to help Taiwanese farmers to use the modern management and plant for adequate insect-resistant varieties to have a better life.
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LEAF FOLDERCnaphalocrocis medinalis |
BRown planthopperNilaparvata lugens |
Fall armywormSpodoptera frugiperda |
Crop Resistance to Insects Lab is established to learn how insect-resistant crops respond to abiotic and biotic stresses at physiological and molecular levels. Dr. Chuang's long term research interest is to understand the crop resistant mechanisms to insect herbivores. Currently, the major area of his research is focused on understanding the interplay between rice and and rice pests (rice leaffolder and brown planthopper). We will use a wide range of techniques, including functional genomics, proteomics, and phenotyping to understand the resistant mechanism in insect-resistant rice variety.
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OUR GOALTo help Taiwanese farmers to use the modern management and plant for adequate insect-resistant varieties. |