CAMPBELL BIOLOGY MOD MASTERING (18 WEEK)
CAMPBELL BIOLOGY MOD MASTERING (18 WEEK)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780136920335
Author: Urry
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 39, Problem 13TYU
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To discuss: How the grazing of shoot tips by an herbivore affects the health, structure, physiology and biochemistry of a plant and which hormones would cause these effects / changes.

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Plant-eating animals and insects are a kind of stress for plants. This mechanical stress due to wounding will produce the gas ethylene. This ethylene is a gaseous hormone responsible for the formation of triple response in plants.

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