Touch and plant defence: volatile communication with neighbours

Jacob C. Douma; Niels P.R. Anten

doi:10.1093/jxb/ery444

Touch and plant defence: volatile communication with neighbours

Jacob C. Douma, Niels P.R. Anten^*

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Plants use many cues to get the latest news on their environment, from different parts of the light spectrum predicting future shading by neighbours, to volatiles released by insect-infested plants preparing neighbouring plants for future attack, or touch providing information about impending mechanical stress or herbivore attacks. Markovic et al. (2019) have now shown that gentle touching of leaves leads to emission of volatiles that can activate the same set of defence genes in neighbouring plants as were up-regulated in the touched plant.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	371-374
Journal	Journal of Experimental Botany
Volume	70
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery444
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2019

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