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Direct defenses
Herbivores
Indirect defenses
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Tolerance
Toxins.
Transgenic tobacco leads
Nicotiana-attenuata
Polyphenol oxidase
Proteinase-inhibitors
Inducible defense
Tomato plants
Lycopersicon-esculentum
Terpenoid biosynthesis
Protease inhibitors
Induced resistance.
Plant Sciences in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural, Biology & Environmental Sciences. Animal & Plant Sciences in Current Contents(R)/Life Sciences.
Abstract:
Plants must fend off a myriad of aggressive biotic agents and this biotic onslaught occurs across the complete spectrum of spatial scales from pathogens that attack single cells (Somssich and Hahlbrock 1998) to herbivores that select their hosts by char