Sentence examples for defense compounds from inspiring English sources

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).

This study demonstrates that even easily degradable natural products present in crop plants as defense compounds pose a threat to the quality of groundwater and surface waters.

Now, it turns out, at least one pest can detect the signals that cue these defense compounds in time to subvert them.

However, plant pathogens have developed the ability to secrete effector proteins into plant cells that suppress PTI through the inhibition of signaling pathways or the synthesis of defense compounds by the host plant (Alfano 2009).

Several investigations have suggested that the PST function as defense compounds against copepods [reviewed in 15].

Use of chemical defense compounds in ants may promote coexistence of species with otherwise mismatched interference and exploitation competitive abilities.

The toxicological challenge of generalized feeding is considerable with respect to the tremendous diversity of plant defense compounds.

The rapidly increasing number of identified glucosinolate regulators, provides important tools to understand how the plant controls the production of these critical herbivore and pathogen defense compounds.