Chapter 39, Problem 13TYU

Summary Introduction

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.

Introduction:

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.