Constitutive Plant Toxins and Their Role in Defense Against Herbivores and Pathogens

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Plant Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 2002 Aug 16

PMID 12179963

Citations 133

Authors

Ute Wittstock

Jonathan Gershenzon

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Abstract

Most recent investigations have focused on induced, rather than constitutive, plant defenses. Yet significant research has helped to illuminate some of the principal characteristics of constitutive defenses, including mechanisms of action and synergistic effects, as well as strategies used by herbivores and pathogens to circumvent them.

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