In fact they tag caterpillars with a distinctive odor that complements the indirect defenses of plants, providing explicit information about the location of feeding larvae to predators. Full article available on PNAS April 25, 2011
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Tobacco plants act like “evil lollipops”
Plant tricomes exuded sugar-rich compound to attract larvae, but they are like dangerous lollipops:
In fact they tag caterpillars with a distinctive odor that complements the indirect defenses of plants, providing explicit information about the location of feeding larvae to predators. Full article available on PNAS April 25, 2011
In fact they tag caterpillars with a distinctive odor that complements the indirect defenses of plants, providing explicit information about the location of feeding larvae to predators. Full article available on PNAS April 25, 2011
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