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Manduca sexta; nicotine; stealthy feeding; defense optimization; competition
Manduca-sexta; plant defense; alkaloidal responses; inducible defense; tobacco hornworm; wound response; allocation; sylvestris; nitrogen; genes
Abstract:
Specialist herbivores are known to alter their host's wound- induced responses but the beneficiaries of these alterations are unknown. Nicotiana attenuata plants release a burst of ethylene specifically in response to feeding by Manduca sexta larvae, wh