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SCIENCE
Volume 311, Issue 5762, Pages 812-815Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118446
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Plants may eavesdrop on volatile organic compounds WOO released by herbivore-attacked neighbors to activate defenses before being attacked themselves. Transcriptome and signal cascade analyses of VOC-exposed plants suggest that plants eavesdrop to prime direct and indirect defenses and to hone competitive abilities. Advances in research on VOC biosynthesis and perception have facilitated the production of plants that are genetically deaf to particular VOC5 or mute in elements of their volatile vocabulary. Such plants, together with advances in VOC analytical instrumentation, will allow researchers to determine whether fluency enhances the fitness of plants in natural communities.
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