By Wolfgang Schumann (auth.), Carlos López-Larrea PhD (eds.)
Biological platforms are an rising self-discipline which could offer integrative instruments through assembling the hierarchy of interactions between genes, proteins and molecular networks considering sensory structures. the purpose of this quantity is to supply an image, as entire as attainable, of the present country of information of sensory platforms in nature. The presentation during this publication lies on the intersection of evolutionary biology, telephone and molecular biology, body structure and genetics. Sensing in Nature is written via a exclusive panel of experts and is meant to be learn by way of biologists, scholars, clinical investigators and the scientific community.
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13 Interestingly, jasmonic acid accumulation was not primed to increase in response to mechanical damage alone. Other plant defence responses have also been shown to be primed. 56 Therefore, it would seem that this priming is more general than the example of jasmonic acid in corn, which is not increased by mechanical damage alone. 31 Analyses of gene expression have complemented these records of primed defence. 37,57-60 This suggests that signals have been detected by receiver plants, even though changes in phenotype are not observed.