Sentence examples for defense compound from inspiring English sources

Gossypol is a natural defense compound in the plant that protects it against pests and diseases, but can have antinutritional quality effects when consumed by dairy cattle.

Hydrogen peroxide is a player in early plant defense responses and has potential roles in cell wall reinforcement and papillae formation (Wojtaszek 1997; Schweizer et al. 1999), as a signaling molecule for downstream defense responses (Grant et al. 2000; Gechev et al. 2006), and as a toxic defense compound against invading microbes (Shetty et al. 2008).

Plants use sesquiterpenes as a defense compound against insects.

Jaeger and Spiteller suggest that mycenaaurin A might function as a defense compound, since it exhibits antibacterial activity against the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus pumilus.

Pine resin is a major defense compound against various pests, including insects, nematodes and fungi [36], [37] and is composed of several terpenes, toxic primary metabolites.

The role of PST in acting as defense compound should therefore be reconsidered with respect to genotypic variation and phenotypic plasticity of Alexandrium species and tested copepod grazers.

"The other portion is from greater pest attacks in organic fields, triggering their defense mechanisms," he said, "which in turn are driving up secondary defense compounds that are also human nutrients".

Their potent biological activity suggests that alkaloids function as defense compounds.

Diterpene resin acids (16, rosin) secreted by the gymnosperm conifer species are important defense compounds against herbivores and pathogens.

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

(A few plants naturally use these FA-contianing pairs in making lignins that serve as plant defense compounds, Ralph says).