Experience and memory of environmental stimuli that indicate future stress can prepare
(prime) organismic stress responses even in species lacking a nervous system. The process …

Background Jasmonates are important regulators in plant responses to biotic and abiotic
stresses as well as in development. Synthesized from lipid-constituents, the initially formed …

Plants need to cope with changing environmental conditions, be it variable light or
temperature, different availability of water or nutrients, or attack by pathogens or insects …

Plants collectively produce hundreds of thousands of specialized metabolites that are not
required for growth or development. Each species has a qualitatively unique profile, with …

An attack of plants by pathogens or treatment with certain resistance-inducing compounds
can lead to the establishment of a unique primed state of defense. Primed plants show …

The nervous system of animals serves the acquisition, memorization and recollection of
information. Like animals, plants also acquire a huge amount of information from their …

Drought, salinity, extreme temperature variations, pathogen and herbivory attacks are
recurring environmental stresses experienced by plants throughout their life. To survive …

The mediation of volatile secondary metabolites in signalling between plants and other
organisms has long been seen as presenting opportunities for sustainable crop protection …

Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species are involved in a plethora of cellular responses in
plants; however, our knowledge on the outcomes of oxidative and nitrosative signaling is still …

Insect-induced defenses occur in nearly all plants and are regulated by conserved signaling
pathways. As the first described plant peptide signal, systemin regulates antiherbivore …