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Making crops cry for help

John Whitfield

Nature, 2001, vol. 410, issue 6830, 736-737

Abstract: Plants attacked by hungry herbivores can release chemicals that attract their assailants' predators. Could these responses be exploited to develop environmentally friendly pest-control strategies? John Whitfield investigates.

Date: 2001
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