Sentence examples for defensive compound from inspiring English sources
The yellow, odorous defensive compound may also stain furniture, carpets and draperies.
When disturbed, a firefly (Photuris versicolor) begins "reflex bleeding" and exudes a fluid that contains the defensive compound lucibufagin.
The ROS exerts various effects on plant defense responses, including cell wall reinforcement, hypersensitive cell death, defensive gene activation, as well as defensive compound induction [36].
The former contains higher concentrations of linear furanocoumarins, a defensive compound against herbivores, than the latter [ 58].
However, this must be experimentally validated particularly when the defensive compound(s) being tested are not well studied, such as glucosinolates derived from branched-chain amino acids (BCAA).
The substance pederin can most prominently be found in the abdominal region of the fourth segment where the reservoir of this defensive compound is located [ 13 ].
As plants mature and reach the reproductive stage, the dynamics of defenses may change again: levels of defensive compounds may be reallocated to valuable reproductive tissues (e.g. flowers, seeds), or globally decrease if the production of secondary metabolites constrains the production of reproductive tissues [ 3, 15].
An assessment of the re-allocation of photosynthate away from growth and towards defense could provide further evidence of whether defensive compounds were the causative agent behind reduced belowground colonization rates [ 1, 14, 38].
Additionally, plants may not have the same needs for defenses or equal amounts of resources to invest in defensive compounds at all points of their development [ 3], and such variation may also lead to herbivore adaptation (e.g. herbivore adjusting its "offense" to ontogenetic shifts in plant defense) [ 6, 7].
Hence, attacking herbivores initiate the release of an indirect defense a full day before the attacked plants manufacture their own defensive compounds.
However, plants may not always have the capacity to protect young tissues optimally: resource limitations may constrain the production of defensive compounds until the plant has gained enough biomass to allocate resources for defenses [ 14].
