Biological resources
Seeds of wild type peas (L107, Torsdag cultivar) and mutants deficient
in either SL synthesis mutants (rms1-2 and rms5-3 ) or SL
signalling (rms3-1 and rms4-1 ) seed were kindly donated by
Professor Christine Beveridge. Stocks of the aphid Acyrthosiphon
pisum was maintained on wild type pea at a 16 h day length and
22±3oC.