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role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="papers"> <h2>Most Recent Publications</h2>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://biblioteca.cenicafe.org/bitstream/10778/4237/1/CAP5.pdf" target="_blank">Ecolog铆a qu铆mica de interacciones entre plantas, insectos y controladores naturales de plagas herb铆voras</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor Acevedo, on p. 106-141 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Herbivore cues from the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) larvae trigger direct defenses in maize.</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> W Chuang, Swayamjit Ray, Flor Acevedo, Michelle Peiffer, Gary Felton, Dawn Luthe, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 461-470 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmae039" target="_blank">Assessing the potential economic impacts of spotted lanternfly (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) infestations on grape production in New York State</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Allan F. Pinto, Brian C. Eshenaur, Flor E. Acevedo, Alejandro A. Calixto, Michela Centinari, Miguel I. G贸mez, 2025, Journal of Integrated Pest Management </p>  </div> <div class="panel-collapse collapse" aria-labelledby="recentPubs" id="recentPubs">  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4009217/latest.pdf" target="_blank">The Spotted Lanternfly Contains High Concentrations of Plant Hormones in its Salivary Glands: Implications in Host Plant Interactions</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor E. Acevedo, 2024, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 799-806 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Bio-inspired design of hard-bodied mobile robots based on arthropod morphologies: a 10 year systematic review and bibliometric analysis</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Jos茅 Cornejo, J. Enrique Sierra-Garcia, Francisco Javier Gomez-Gil, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Flor E. Acevedo, Ignacio Escalante, Ernesto Recuero, Ingo S. Wehrtmann, 2024, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Biology and life table parameters of Paralobesia viteana (Lepidoptera:Tortricidae), grown on different grape cultivars</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Laura Laiton-Jimenez, Fnu Samiksha, Flor Edith Acevedo, 2024, Journal of Economic Entomology on p. 1152-1163 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Recent history and future trends in host-plant resistance</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Michael J. Stout, Lina Bernaola, Flor Acevedo, 2024, Annals of the Entomological Society of America on p. 139-149 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Grapevine plant defense responses associated with arthropod herbivory: A review</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Sukhman Singh, Flor E. Acevedo, 2024, Crop Protection </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.24072/pcjournal.362.pdf" target="_blank">Diversity of bacterial symbionts associated with the tropical plant bug Monalonion velezangeli (Hemiptera: Miridae) revealed by high-throughput 16S-rRNA sequencing</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Lucio Navarro-Escalante, Pablo Benavides, Flor E. Acevedo, 2024, Peer Community Journal </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Be Prepared: The Spotted Lanternfly is Moving West. We鈥檝e learned a lot, but there鈥檚 still much to learn</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Cain Hickey, Flor Acevedo, Michela Centinari, Claudia Schmidt, 2023, Wine Business Monthly on p. 5 </p>  </div> </div> <a class="collapsed view-more btn btn-info mt-3" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" href="#recentPubs" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="recentPubs">View More</a> <h2>Most-Cited Papers</h2>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Cues from chewing insects - the intersection of DAMPs, HAMPs, MAMPs and effectors</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor E. Acevedo, Loren J. Rivera-Vega, Seung Ho Chung, Swayamjit Ray, Gary W. Felton, 2015, Current Opinion in Plant Biology on p. 80-86 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/MPMI-11-16-0240-R" target="_blank">Fall armyworm-associated gut bacteria modulate plant defense responses</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor E. Acevedo, Michelle Peiffer, Ching Wen Tan, Bruce A. Stanley, Anne Stanley, Jie Wang, Asher G. Jones, Kelli Hoover, Cristina Rosa, Dawn Luthe, Gary Felton, 2017, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 127-137 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://www.cell.com/article/S1360138521002491/pdf" target="_blank">Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Po-An Lin, Yintong Chen, Gabriela Ponce, Flor Acevedo, Jonathan P. Lynch, Charles Anderson, Jared G. Ali, Gary W. Felton, 2021, Trends in Plant Science on p. 287-300 </p>  </div> <div class="panel-collapse collapse" aria-labelledby="citedPubs" id="citedPubs">  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/20/5199.full.pdf" target="_blank">Symbiotic polydnavirus of a parasite manipulates caterpillar and plant immunity</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Ching Wen Tan, Michelle Peiffer, Kelli Hoover, Cristina Rosa, Flor E. Acevedo, Gary W. Felton, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 5199-5204 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/plantphysiol/171/1/694.full.pdf" target="_blank">Turnabout is fair play: Herbivory-induced plant chitinases excreted in fall armyworm frass suppress herbivore defenses in maize</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Swayamjit Ray, Patrick C.M.S. Alves, Imtiaz Ahmad, Iffa Gaffoor, Flor E. Acevedo, Michelle Peiffer, Shan Jin, Yang Han, Samina Shakee, Gary W. Felton, Dawn S. Luthe, 2016, Plant Physiology on p. 694-706 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Maize Plants Recognize Herbivore-Associated Cues from Caterpillar Frass</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Swayamjit Ray, Iffa Gaffor, Flo Acevedo, Anjel Helms, Wen Po Chuang, John Tooker, Gary W. Felton, Dawn S. Luthe, 2015, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 781-792 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/nph.14981" target="_blank">Intraspecific differences in plant defense induction by fall armyworm strains</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor E. Acevedo, Michelle Peiffer, Swayamjit Ray, Robert Meagher, Dawn S. Luthe, Gary W. Felton, 2018, New Phytologist on p. 310-321 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="http://manuscript.elsevier.com/S2214574517300093/pdf/S2214574517300093.pdf" target="_blank">Genomics of Lepidoptera saliva reveals function in herbivory</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Loren J. Rivera-Vega, Flor E. Acevedo, Gary W. Felton, 2017, Current Opinion in Insect Science on p. 61-69 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4>Phytohormones in Fall Armyworm Saliva Modulate Defense Responses in Plants</h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor Edith Acevedo, Philip Smith, Michelle Peiffer, Anjel Helms, John Tooker, Gary W. Felton, 2019, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 598-609 </p>  </div>  <div class="paper-publications"> <h4 class="publication-link"><a href="http://manuscript.elsevier.com/S0965174817300772/pdf/S0965174817300772.pdf" target="_blank">Quantitative proteomic analysis of the fall armyworm saliva</a></h4> <p class="paper-citation"> Flor E. Acevedo, Bruce A. Stanley, Anne Stanley, Michelle Peiffer, Dawn S. Luthe, Gary W. 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