The plant metabolome guides fitness-relevant foraging decisions of a specialist herbivore.

Plants produce complex mixtures of primary and secondary metabolites. Herbivores use these metabolites as behavioral cues to increase their fitness. However, how herbivores combine and integrate different metabolite classes into fitness-relevant foraging decisions in planta is poorly understood. We...

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Main Authors: Ricardo A R Machado, Vanitha Theepan, Christelle A M Robert, Tobias Züst, Lingfei Hu, Qi Su, Bernardus C J Schimmel, Matthias Erb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001114