Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred
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Costs of defense are central to our understanding of interactions between organisms and
their environment, and defensive phenotypes of plants have long been considered to be …

Evolutionary success in plants is largely dependent on the successful transition from
vegetative to reproductive growth. In the lifetime of a plant, flowering is not only an essential …

Glucosinolates are secondary defense metabolites produced by plants of the order
Brassicales, which includes the model species Arabidopsis and many crop species. In the …

Significantly improved crop varieties are urgently needed to feed the rapidly growing human
population under changing climates. While genome sequence information and excellent …

Plant growth is a fundamental ecological process, integrating across scales from physiology
to community dynamics and ecosystem properties. Recent improvements in plant growth …

Plants are sessile organisms and dependent on deployment of secondary metabolites for
their response to biotic and abiotic challenges. A trade-off is envisioned between resources …

In plants, transport processes are important for the reallocation of defence compounds to
protect tissues of high value, as demonstrated in the plant model Arabidopsis, in which the …

Plants defend themselves against attack by natural enemies, and these defenses vary
widely across populations. However, whether communities of natural enemies are a …

Genes encode information that determines an organism's fitness. Yet we know little about
whether genes of one species influence the persistence of interacting species in an …