Plant chemical diversity enhances defense against herbivory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 51, December 2024.
SignificancePlants make a diversity of defensive substances, but we do not yet know the significance of such chemical diversity against herbivorous pests. We show that plant toxin mixtures from milkweeds act on multiple physiological mechanisms of the …
Source : National Academy of Sciences

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