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Plants on early alert: glandular trichomes as sensors for insect herbivores.
The New phytologist - 1 Nov 2009
Peiffer Michelle, Tooker John F, Luthe Dawn S, Felton Gary W
Abstract excerpt
The ability of caterpillar or moth 'footsteps' to elicit defenses in the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant was examined. Although touch responses frequently have been observed in plants, the role of herbivore 'touch' in eliciting antiherbivore defenses has not been adequately examined. A combination of methods, including in situ hybridization, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, quantitative...
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