Transcriptional responses of resistant and susceptible wheat exposed to wheat curl mite

The goal of this work was to explore the consequences of wheat curl mite herbivory to wheat resistant to the mites (TAM112) using RNASeq technology and compare it to transcriptional changes in a susceptible wheat variety (Karl 92). We found that resistant wheat unregulated a number of genes and pathways responsible for herbivore and pathogen responses in plants, while these changes were absent in wheat susceptible to the mites. This is the first study to quantify transcriptome-level responses to wheat curl mite in wheat.