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SUBMITTER: Markovic D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322579 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Markovic Dimitrije D Colzi Ilaria I Taiti Cosimo C Ray Swayamjit S Scalone Romain R Gregory Ali Jared J Mancuso Stefano S Ninkovic Velemir V
Journal of experimental botany 20190101 2
Plants activate defense-related pathways in response to subtle abiotic or biotic disturbances, changing their volatile profile rapidly. How such perturbations reach and potentially affect neighboring plants is less understood. We evaluated whether brief and light touching had a cascade effect on the profile of volatiles and gene expression of the focal plant and a neighboring untouched plant. Within minutes after contact, Zea mays showed an up-regulation of certain defense genes and increased th ...[more]