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talking trees; leaf beetles; volatiles; proteinase inhibitors; jasmonic acid; phenolics; ethylene
Plant proteinase-inhibitors; jasmonic acid; parasitic wasps; methyl jasmonate; tomato plants; acyclic homoterpenes; nutritional quality; polyphenol oxidase; spodoptera-exigua; induced volatiles
Abstract:
Field experiments with manually defoliated black alders (Alnus glutinosa) showed that defoliation affected herbivory by the major alder antagonist, the leaf beetle Agelastica alni. Herbivore damage increased with increasing distance to the defoliated tr