Sentences with phrase «plants against herbivores»

The ants return this favor by protecting the plants against herbivores.

Curcumin is not essential for the growth and survival of turmeric, rather it is a natural phenol which defends the plant against herbivores, a feature it shares with other secondary metabolites, which are often used in medicine or as food additives.

Not exact matches

«But, herbivores can evade plant defenses by using symbiotic bacteria that deceive the plant into perceiving an herbivore threat as microbial, suppressing the plant's defenses against herbivores.»

Like many other plants, dandelions produce secondary metabolites to protect themselves against herbivores.

As the introduction of non-native species increases, protection of intact plant communities and their associated herbivores may become critical to guarding against the non-native species invaders.

In addition, many of Madagascar's plants have evolved defenses against large herbivores, such as spines and multiple leaf shapes that protect young sprouts from browsing tortoises.

In return for room and board, mutualistic Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus ants become bodyguards, protecting their host against herbivores and competing plants.

At each site Meyerson and Cronin measured plant biomass and defenses against herbivores and quantified insect damage by galling, chewing and sucking (aphids) insects to measure the effects of herbivory on Phragmites fitness.

The hairs in turn generate electrical impulses that somehow stimulate glands in the trap to produce jasmonic acid — the same signal that noncarnivorous plants use to initiate defensive action against herbivores.

These are poisons, produced by some plants as protection against herbivores,» says Ober.

Then, and as a consequence of this, there are native to Cedros herbivores, which on one hand compete with the goat population for food and presumably have kept it from increasing beyond carrying capacity, and on the other hand forced the native plants to keep their defenses against herbivores, unlike plants on megaherbivoreless islands which tend to lack those defenses.

Soybeans grown under elevated carbon dioxide «appear to be helpless against herbivores [plant eaters],» Casteel says.