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Plants can ‘cry for help’ in response to herbivory as well as anticipate herbivory by detecting specific environmental cues before damage occurs. But can plants ‘anticipate help?’ Building on the optimal defence and information transfer models of induced plant defence, we argue they can. We find literature support for key assumptions of the ‘anticipating help’ hypothesis, which proposes plants can (1) detect cues that signal r...
Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact this critical ecosystem service. Because standardized data on crop pollination are rarely available, we are limited in our capacity to understand the variation in pollination benefits to crop yield, as well as to anticipate changes in this service, develop predictions, and...
Multiple interaction types determine the impact of ant predation of caterpillars in a forest communityNARA Subscribed
Direct and indirect effects of predators are highly variable in complex communities, and understanding the sources of this variation is a research priority in community ecology. Recent evidence indicates that herbivore community structure is a primary determinant of predation strength and its cascading impacts on plants. In this study, we use variation in herbivore community structure among plant species to experimentally test...
EPMA-World Congress 2015NARA Subscribed
Summary Effective gene trapping and screening requires sensory and regulatory compatibility of both host and exogenous systems. The naturally competent bacterium Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 is able to efficiently take up and integrate exogenous DNA into the chromosome, making it an attractive host system for a wide range of metagenomic applications. To test the ability of A. baylyi ADP1 to express the XylR‐regulated Pu promoter...