Male (left) and female (right) moths of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis. The caterpillars of this pest mainly attack the stems of maize plants.

Publications of Jiancai Li

Journal Article (7)

2022
Journal Article
Heiling, S.; Li, J.; Halitschke, R.; Paetz, C.; Baldwin, I. T.: The downside of metabolic diversity: Postingestive rearrangements by specialized insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (24), e2122808119 (2022)
2021
Journal Article
Heiling, S.; Cortés Llorca, L.; Li, J.; Gase, K.; Schmidt, A.; Schaefer, M.; Schneider, B.; Halitschke, R.; Gaquerel, E.; Baldwin, I. T.: Specific decorations of 17-hydroxygeranyllinalool diterpene glycosides solve the autotoxicity problem of chemical defense in Nicotiana attenuata. The Plant Cell 33 (5), pp. 1748 - 1770 (2021)
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Li, J.; Halitschke, R.; Li, D.; Paetz, C.; Su, H.; Heiling, S.; Xu, S.; Baldwin, I. T.: Controlled hydroxylations of diterpenoids allow for plant chemical defense without autotoxicity. Science 371 (6526), pp. 255 - 260 (2021)
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Li, R.; Jin, J.; Xu, J.; Wang, L. L.; Li, J.; Lou, Y.; Baldwin, I. T.: Long non-coding RNAs associate with jasmonate-mediated plant defense against herbivores. Plant, Cell and Environment 44 (3), pp. 982 - 994 (2021)
2019
Journal Article
Liu, X.; Li, J.; Noman, A.; Lou, Y.: Silencing OsMAPK20-5 has different effects on rice pests in the field. Plant Signaling & Behavior 14 (9), e1640562 (2019)
2018
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Li, J.; Schuman, M. C.; Halitschke, R.; Li, X.; Guo, H.; Grabe, V.; Hammer, A.; Baldwin, I. T.: The decoration of specialized metabolites influences stylar development. eLife 7, e38611 (2018)
2017
Journal Article
Poreddy, S.; Li, J.; Baldwin, I. T.: Plant-mediated RNAi silences midgut-expressed genes in congeneric lepidopteran insects in nature. BMC Plant Biology 17, 199 (2017)
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