When plants recognize potential opponents, invading pathogens, wound signals, or abiotic
stress, they often switch to a primed state of enhanced defense. However, defense priming …

Experience and memory of environmental stimuli that indicate future stress can prepare
(prime) organismic stress responses even in species lacking a nervous system. The process …

Communication occurs when a sender emits a cue perceived by a receiver that changes the
receiver's behavior. Plants perceive information regarding light, water, other nutrients, touch …

The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the
particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Plant volatiles are used not only by herbivorous insects to find their host plants, but also by
the natural enemies of the herbivores to find their prey. There is also increasing evidence …

Volatiles from herbivore-infested plants function as a chemical warning of future herbivory
for neighboring plants.(Z)-3-Hexenol emitted from tomato plants infested by common …

Highlights•Environmental volatile cues can induce or suppress plant defenses.•Volatiles can
activate different defense signaling pathways.•Hormonal crosstalk is a possible mechanism …

Abstract Key Message This review provides an overview, analysis, and reflection on insect
elicitors and effectors (particularly from oral secretions) in the context of the 'arms race'with …

Plants emit an extraordinary diversity of chemicals that provide information about their
identity and mediate their interactions with insects. However, most studies of this have …