All plants synthesize a suite of several hundred terpenoid compounds with roles that include
phytohormones, protein modification reagents, anti‐oxidants, and more. Different plant …

Background Multicellular organisms have evolved systems/mechanisms to detect various
forms of danger, including attack by microbial pathogens and a variety of pests, as well as …

Plants maintain microbial associations whose functions remain largely unknown. For the
past 15 y, we have planted the annual postfire tobacco Nicotiana attenuata into an …

Some plant terpenes such as sterols and carotenes are part of primary metabolism and
found essentially in all plants. However, the majority of the terpenes found in plants are …

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

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 …

Plants are continuously exposed to agents such as herbivores and environmental
mechanical stresses that cause wounding and open the way to the invasion by microbial …

Plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to sense and respond to pathogen attacks.
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens generally requires the activation of the jasmonic …

A major aim of ecology is to upscale attributes of individuals to understand processes at
population, community and ecosystem scales. Such attributes are typically described using …

When insect herbivores attack plants, elicitors from oral secretions and regurgitants (OS)
enter wounds during feeding, eliciting defense responses. These generally require plant …