“Scents” of alarm: Volatile chemical signals from damaged plants warn neighbors about herbivore attacks - EurekAlert

Animals often use highly specific signals to warn their herd about approaching predators. Surprisingly, similar behaviors are also observed among plants. Shedding more light on this phenomenon, Tokyo University of Science researchers have discovered one such …

image: Using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, researchers have shown that herbivore-damaged plants give off volatile chemical scents that trigger epigenetic modifications in the defense genes … [+5248 chars]

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