How plants sense wounds: damaged-self recognition is based on plant-derived elicitors and induces octadecanoid signaling.

<h4>Background</h4>Animal-derived elicitors can be used by plants to detect herbivory but they function only in specific insect-plant interactions. How can plants generally perceive damage caused by herbivores? Damaged-self recognition occurs when plants perceive molecular signals of dam...

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Main Authors: Martin Heil, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Rosa M Adame-Álvarez, Octavio Martínez, Enrique Ramirez-Chávez, Jorge Molina-Torres, Luis Herrera-Estrella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22347382/?tool=EBI