Sentences with phrase «tomato plant responses»
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Chung and Felton used tomato plants to identify exactly what was turning off the response to chewing.
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The Colorado potato beetle suppresses the plants chewing response only when the beetles feed on tomatoes or potatoes, not when they feed on other members of the nightshade family like eggplants or peppers.
Tomato plants produce repellent chemicals called volatile organic compounds in response to herbivore attacks.
«The results show that crop plants like potatoes and tomatoes give an immune response as soon as they contain this recognition complex, and that if infected, they show far fewer symptoms than unmodified plants,» says Dr. Isabell Albert.
Orrock and colleagues activated tomato plants» defenses by spraying them with increasing concentrations of methyl jasmonate — a version of a chemical that plants release when they are being attacked that triggers downstream responses such as increased production of toxic metabolites.
A novel link between tomato GRAS genes, plant disease resistance and mechanical stress response