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Plant chemical defense: at what cost?
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This opinion article examines how the costs of plant chemical defense can be offset by multifunctional biosynthesis and the optimization of primary metabolism, and may negate the trade-off between primary and secondary metabolism.About:
This article is published in Trends in Plant Science.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 279 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Secondary metabolism.read more
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Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred Functional Trichotomy.
TL;DR: Viewing secondary metabolites as integrated components of metabolic networks that are dynamically shaped by environmental selection pressures and transcend multiple trophic levels can improve the understanding of plant metabolism and plant–environment interactions.
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Biostimulants and crop responses: a review
TL;DR: Biostimulants are plant extracts that contain a wide range of bioactive compounds that are mostly still unknown and are usually able to improve the nutrient use efficiency of the plant and enhance tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses as discussed by the authors.
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Cyanogenic Glycosides: Synthesis, Physiology, and Phenotypic Plasticity
TL;DR: It is important to understand the molecular mechanisms regulating cyanogenesis so that the impact of future environmental challenges can be anticipated and efforts are directed toward their removal to improve food safety.
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The pathogen Moniliophthora perniciosa promotes differential proteomic modulation of cacao genotypes with contrasting resistance to witches´ broom disease.
Everton Cruz dos Santos,Carlos Priminho Pirovani,Stephany Corrêa,Fabienne Micheli,Karina Peres Gramacho +4 more
TL;DR: The important altered proteins identified in the present study are related to key biologic functions in resistance, such as oxidative stress, especially in the resistant genotype TSH1188, that showed a strong mechanism of detoxification.
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Utilization of a high-throughput shoot imaging system to examine the dynamic phenotypic responses of a C4 cereal crop plant to nitrogen and water deficiency over time
Elizabeth H.J. Neilson,A. M. Edwards,Cecilia K. Blomstedt,Bettina Berger,B. Lindberg Møller,Roslyn M. Gleadow +5 more
TL;DR: A high-throughput imaging system was used to compare growth and architectural traits of sorghum grown under different environmental conditions, and validated against traditional measures of plant performance and composition.
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The dilemma of plants: To grow or defend.
TL;DR: A conceptual model of the evolution of plant defense is concluded, in which plant physioligical trade-offs interact with the abiotic environment, competition and herbivory.
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Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense
TL;DR: Resource availability in the environment is proposed as the major determinant of both the amount and type of plant defense, and theories on the evolution of plant defenses are compared with other theories.
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Abscisic acid biosynthesis and catabolism
Eiji Nambara,Annie Marion-Poll +1 more
TL;DR: Identification of ABA metabolic genes has revealed that multiple metabolic steps are differentially regulated to fine-tune the ABA level at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels.
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The function of terpene natural products in the natural world.
TL;DR: It is striking how phylogenetically distant organisms have come to use similar structures for common purposes in terpenes, and new natural roles undoubtedly remain to be discovered for this large class of compounds.
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Out Of The Quagmire Of Plant Defense Hypotheses
TL;DR: Several hypotheses, mainly Optimal Defense, Carbon:Nutrient Balance, Growth Rate, and Growth‐Differentiation Balance, have individually served as frameworks for investigating the patterns of plant defense against herbivores, in particular the pattern of constitutive defense.