Plants collectively produce hundreds of thousands of specialized metabolites that are not
required for growth or development. Each species has a qualitatively unique profile, with …

The plant hormone jasmonate (JA) exerts direct control over the production of chemical
defense compounds that confer resistance to a remarkable spectrum of plant-associated …

Abstract Background The Solanaceae is a plant family of great economic importance.
Despite a wealth of phylogenetic work on individual clades and a deep knowledge of …

Although much is known about plant traits that function in nonhost resistance against
pathogens, little is known about nonhost resistance against herbivores, despite its …

Plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) are variably distributed across taxa, tissues, and
ecological contexts; this variability has inspired many theories about PSM function, which to …

Jasmonate (JA) and abscisic acid (ABA) are two major phytohormones involved in pathogen
resistance. However, how their biosynthesis is regulated is not well understood. We silenced …

Herbivore attack leads to resource conflicts between plant defensive strategies.
Photoassimilates are required for defensive compounds and carbon storage below ground …

Hormones play pivotal roles in regulating plant development, growth, and stress responses,
and cross‐talk among different hormones fine‐tunes various aspects of plant physiology …

Alternaria alternata (tobacco pathotype) is a necrotrophic fungus causing severe losses in
Nicotiana species by infection of mature leaves. Similar to what has been observed in …

Highlights•Function and evolution of inducibility of resistance still remain unclear.•Most basic
function of plant secondary metabolite production is information transfer.•Constitutive …