Acylsugars, Nicotine and a Protease Inhibitor Provide Variable Protection for Nicotiana benthamiana in a Natural Setting.

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Plants produce an immense diversity of defensive specialized metabolites. However, despite extensive functional characterization, the relative importance of different defensive compounds is rarely examined in natural settings. Here, we compare the efficacy of three Nicotiana benthamiana defensive compounds, nicotine, acylsugars and a serine protease inhibitor, by growing plants with combinations of knockout...

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