Silicon has generally not been considered essential for plant growth, although it is well
recognized that many plants, particularly Poaceae, have substantial plant tissue …

As a major component of plant secondary cell walls, lignin provides structural integrity and
rigidity, and contributes to primary defense by providing a physical barrier to pathogen …

In response to challenges from herbivores and competitors, plants use fitness‐limiting
resources to produce (auto) toxic defenses. Jasmonate signaling, mediated by MYC2 …

Plant growth is often constrained by the limited availability of resources in the
microenvironment. Despite the continuous threat of attack from insect herbivores and …

Silicon (Si), an essential nutrient in the plant health system, are gaining momentum in
facilitating defense mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stresses. Recently, Si has …

In comparison to inorganic N cycling, only little is known regarding the assimilation of
organic N in soil. Therefore, we used 16S and 18S rDNA gene profiling and functional …

Plants are unsurpassed biochemists that synthesize a plethora of molecules in response to
an ever-changing environment. The majority of these molecules, considered as specialized …

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is emerging as an important signalling molecule that regulates plant
growth and abiotic stress responses. However, the roles of H2S in symbiotic nitrogen (N) …

Induced defenses are thought to be economical: growth and fitness‐limiting resources are
only invested into defenses when needed. To date, this putative growth–defense trade‐off …

Endophytic insects provide the textbook examples of herbivores that manipulate their host
plant's physiology, putatively altering source/sink relationships by transferring cytokinins …