Using Synthetic Biology to Understand the Function of Plant Specialized Metabolites

Y Bai, X Liu, IT Baldwin - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) are variably distributed across taxa, tissues, and
ecological contexts; this variability has inspired many theories about PSM function, which to …

Herbivory-induced volatiles function as defenses increasing fitness of the native plant Nicotiana attenuata in nature

MC Schuman, K Barthel, IT Baldwin - Elife, 2012 - elifesciences.org
From an herbivore's first bite, plants release herbivory-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) which
can attract enemies of herbivores. However, other animals and competing plants can …

Evolution of a flipped pathway creates metabolic innovation in tomato trichomes through BAHD enzyme promiscuity

P Fan, AM Miller, X Liu, AD Jones, RL Last - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Plants produce hundreds of thousands of structurally diverse specialized metabolites via
multistep biosynthetic networks, including compounds of ecological and therapeutic …

Intraspecific variation in herbivore‐induced plant volatiles influences the spatial range of plant–parasitoid interactions

Y Aartsma, B Leroy, W van der Werf, M Dicke… - Oikos, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical information influences the behaviour of many animals, thus affecting species
interactions. Many animals forage for resources that are heterogeneously distributed in …

Picking sides: feeding on the abaxial leaf surface is costly for caterpillars

S Watts, R Kariyat - Planta, 2021 - Springer
Main conclusion The study provides us with the evidence that caterpillars tend to feed on the
abaxial leaf surface despite the damage caused to them because of higher trichome density …

Using natural variation to achieve a whole‐plant functional understanding of the responses mediated by jasmonate signaling

R Ray, D Li, R Halitschke, K Gase… - The Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The dramatic advances in our understanding of the molecular biology and biochemistry of
jasmonate (JA) signaling have been the subject of several excellent recent reviews that …

The 'Edibility Approach': using edibility to explore relationships, plant agency and the porosity of species' boundaries

L Attala - Advances in anthropology, 2017 - repository.uwtsd.ac.uk
This paper introduces the Edibility Approach, which proposes that the condi-tion of 'being
edible'is a mechanism that some plants employ to influence their in-gesters to care for them …

[图书][B] Anthropology of tobacco: Ethnographic adventures in non-human worlds

A Russell - 2019 - library.oapen.org
Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commodities on the planet.
Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of …

Surface Warfare: Plant structural defenses challenge caterpillar feeding

I Kaur, S Watts, C Raya, J Raya, R Kariyat - Caterpillars in the middle …, 2022 - Springer
Herbivorous insects, especially caterpillars, exert significant selection pressure on their host
plants, as they exclusively depend on them for their growth and development. To counter …

Bottom‐up and top‐down pressures mediate competition between two generalist insects

EE Barnes, SM Murphy - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of competition can have far‐reaching consequences for individuals, populations,
and communities and therefore we should strive toward a deeper understanding of …