Metabolic Integration of Spectral and Chemical Cues Mediating Plant Responses to Competitors and Herbivores.

ABSTRACT: Light quality and chemicals in a plant's environment can provide crucial information about the presence and nature of antagonists, such as competitors and herbivores. Here, we evaluate the roles of three sources of information-shifts in the red:far red (R:FR) ratio of light reflected off of potentially competing neighbors, induced metabolic changes to damage by insect herbivores, and induced changes to volatile organic compounds emitted from herbivore-damaged neighboring plants-to affect metabolic responses in the tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima. We address the hypothesis that plants integrate the information available about competitors and herbivory to optimize metabolic responses to interacting stressors by exposing plants to the different types of environmental information in

SUBMITTER: Chauta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9609625 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature