Plant secondary metabolites (SMs) play important roles in plant survival and in creating
ecological connections between other species. In addition to providing a variety of valuable …

Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred
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Plants grown in natural soil are colonized by phylogenetically structured communities of
microbes known as the microbiota. Individual microbes can activate microbe-associated …

Glucosinolates are secondary defense metabolites produced by plants of the order
Brassicales, which includes the model species Arabidopsis and many crop species. In the …

Plants are adapted to sense numerous stress stimuli and mount efficient defense responses
by directing intricate signaling pathways. They respond to undesirable circumstances to …

Insect pests represent a major global challenge to important agricultural crops. Insecticides
are often applied to combat such pests, but their use has caused additional challenges such …

In nature, roots of healthy plants are colonized by multikingdom microbial communities that
include bacteria, fungi, and oomycetes. A key question is how plants control the assembly of …

Suberin, a polymer composed of both aliphatic and aromatic domains, is deposited as a
rough matrix upon plant surface damage and during normal growth in the root endodermis …

Insects are associated with a plethora of different microbes of which we are only starting to
understand their role in sha** insect–plant interactions. Besides directly benefitting from …

Glucosinolates (GSLs) are plant secondary metabolites comprising sulfur and nitrogen
mainly found in plants from the order of Brassicales, such as broccoli, cabbage, and …