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    Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction...
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  • ability of plants to mitigate the negative fitness effects caused by herbivory. It is one of the general plant defense strategies against herbivores,...
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  • Plants and herbivores have co-evolved together for 350 million years. Plants have evolved many defense mechanisms against insect herbivory. Such defenses...
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  • Plant defense may refer to: Plant defense against herbivory Inducible plant defenses against herbivory Plant tolerance to herbivory Plant use of endophytic...
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    Jasmonate (category Plant hormones)
    reproductive development. In particular, JAs are critical for plant defense against herbivory and plant responses to poor environmental conditions and other kinds...
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    metabolites often play an important role in plant defense against herbivory and other interspecies defenses. Humans use secondary metabolites as medicines...
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    Herbivore (redirect from Herbivory)
    Herbivora is derived from Latin herba 'small plant, herb' and vora, from vorare 'to eat, devour'. Herbivory is a form of consumption in which an organism...
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    called avenalumins.) Alexin (humoral immunity) Allicin Garlic Plant defense against herbivory Pterostilbene Salvestrol Glazebrook, J; Ausubel, F M (1994)...
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    Tritrophic interactions in plant defense against herbivory describe the ecological impacts of three trophic levels on each other: the plant, the herbivore, and...
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    likely to contain defense structures. Because herbivores prefer nutritionally dense plants and avoid plants or plant parts with defense structures, a greater...
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