Abstract
Corn is one of the most widely grown crops throughout the world. However, many corn fields develop pest problems such as corn borers every year that seriously affect its yield and quality. Corn′s response to initial insect damage involves a variety of changes to the levels of defensive enzymes, toxins, and communicative volatiles. Such a dramatic change secondary metabolism necessitates the regulation of gene expression at the transcript level. In this paper, we summarized the datasets of the transcriptome of corn plants in response to corn stalk borers (Ostrinia furnacalis) and/or methyl jasmonate (MeJA). Altogether, 39, 636 genes were found to be differentially expressed. The sequencing data are available in the NCBI SRA database under accession number SRS965087. Our dataset will provide more scientific and valuable information for future work such as the study of the functions of important genes or proteins and develop new insect-resistant maize varieties.
Highlights
Datasets for transcriptomic analyses of maize leaves in response to Asian corn borer feeding and/or jasmonic acid
Corn0s response to initial insect damage involves a variety of changes to the levels of defensive enzymes, toxins, and communicative volatiles
We summarized the datasets of the transcriptome of corn plants in response to corn stalk borers (Ostrinia furnacalis) and/or methyl jasmonate (MeJA)
Summary
A colony of Ostrinia furnacalis (ACB) was maintained at College of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University (Heilongjiang province, China) on an artificial diet (5 g vitamin C, 40 g yeast extract, 50 g barley powder, 60 g soybean powder, 14 mL ethylic acid (36%), 20 g agar powder, 1 g benzoic acid, 3 g sodium benzoate in 1000 mL ddH2O). The ACB were reared at 28 °C under a 14 h light: 10 h dark photoperiod. Corn seeds of variety Longdan were provided by the Maize Research Institute of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Science and cultivated in a greenhouse at 257 1 °C, 60% humidity, and a 14 h light: 10 h dark photoperiod
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