Sentence examples for classes of defense from inspiring English sources

Environmental pressures forced plants to diversify specialized metabolisms to accumulate noxious molecules such as alkaloids constituting one of the largest classes of defense metabolites.

By exploring a broad range of immune and suicide efficacies in combination with variable degrees of population structure (from a well-mixed population to a fully structured population with no migration), simulations reveal a spectrum of evolutionary behaviors characterized by the acquisition of one, two or all three classes of defense mechanisms.

Terpenes are an important class of defense compounds that accumulate in plants after pathogen infection or arthropod-induced injury.

Thaumatin-like proteins and chitinases may be an unrecognized class of defense products which have significant contributions to plant defense against insect feeding.

Isoflavonoids comprise a class of defense compounds found mostly in legumes.

One of these layers, Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI), acts inside the cell via proteins encoded by a class of defense genes called R genes [ 6].

G. clavigera is very aggressive and it may be capable of detoxifying terpenoids that are an important class of defense compounds in pines (DiGuistini et al. 2011).

Indeed, the prominence of cell wall invertase induction has led to a proposal that it be classified as a pathogenesis-related protein [ 45], which is a large class of defense proteins that become highly expressed following biotic defense activation [ 51].

Among them is resveratrol (RES), which belongs to a class of defense molecules called phytoalexins and is produced in a wide variety of plants (including grapes, peanuts, and mulberries) in response to stress, injury, UV irradiation, and fungal infection [ 1].

Given these observations, the apparent extensive horizontal transfer of pAgo genes, and their common, statistically significant over-representation in genomic neighborhoods enriched in genes encoding proteins involved in the defense against phages and/or plasmids, we hypothesize that pAgos are key components of a novel class of defense systems.

In this paper, we study a new class of defense-oriented evolved worms, the Varying Scan Rate worm (the VSR worm in short).