No time for candy: Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) plants down-regulate damage-induced extra floral nectar production in response to light signals of competition

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 213-221

  Izaguirre, Miriam M ^a   Mazza, Carlos A ^a   Astigueta, María S ^a   Ciarla, Ana M ^a   Ballaré, Carlos L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Extrafloral nectaries; Herbivory; Indirect defenses; Jasmonate; Passiflora; Phytochrome

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; HERBIVORY; LIGHT QUALITY; NECTAR; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNALING; WOUNDING;

ARTHROPODA; PASSIFLORA; PASSIFLORA EDULIS; PASSIFLORA EDULIS F. FLAVICARPA;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; OXYLIPIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; HERBIVORY; LIGHT; NECTAR; PASSIFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYCLOPENTANES; DOWN-REGULATION; HERBIVORY; LIGHT; OXYLIPINS; PASSIFLORA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT NECTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84882859601     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2721-9     Document Type: Article

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