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Monitoring Plant Hormones During Stress Responses
Published on: June 15, 2009
Plant-pest interactions under the microscope of chemical hormesis
Evgenios Agathokleous1, Giovanni Benelli2, Raul Narciso C Guedes3
1Department of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Low doses of contaminants and toxins can stimulate pests feeding on contaminated tissues of host plants and enhance herbivore activity and plant damage. These effects are opposite to those of high toxic doses, have largely been missed so far, and could compromise crop production. Thus, they deserve further consideration and study.
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