Chemical Signal in Plants Reduces Growth Processes in Favor of Defense

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Mar 9, 2021, 3:38 pm240 pts
In a new study in PNAS, an international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown that Arabidopsis thaliana plants produce beta-cyclocitral when attacked by herbivores and that this volatile signal inhibits the methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP)…

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