Herbivore-induced plant volatiles accurately predict history of coexistence, diet breadth, and feeding mode of herbivores

What is it about?

Plants respond to herbivores by emitting volatiles that are used by natural enemies to find their host. Here we show that feeding by exotic herbivores induce different volatile profiles than damage by native herbivores, illustrating the specificity of this response. The latter makes it unlikely that exotic herbivores will disrupt native infochemical networks.

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