Lise Pingault, Senior Research Associate, presents “Omic approaches to decipher crop responses to arthropod pests”. Understanding innate plant defense mechanisms against arthropod pests will provide more information about genes, metabolites, and/or regulatory pathways in crops, which will be extremely valuable for plant engineering approaches. In our lab, we use multi-omic approaches to characterize crops defense mechanisms in response to chewing and sap-sucking insects, as well as mites.