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. 2012 Mar 20;109(12):4343-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1201443109. Epub 2012 Feb 29.

Timely plant defenses protect against caterpillar herbivory

Georg Jander  1
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Timely plant defenses protect against caterpillar herbivory

Georg Jander. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
(A) Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper) caterpillar feeding on Arabidopsis. (B) Under normal growth conditions, when the circadian clocks of the caterpillars and the plants are synchronized, both caterpillar feeding activity (red line) and jasmonate-mediated plant defenses (green line) peak during the day. (C) If the internal clock of cabbage loopers is shifted by 12 h, maximum feeding (red line) occurs at a time of reduced Arabidopsis defenses (green line) and the caterpillars grow more rapidly.
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