Some plants have evolved tolerance to herbivory, growing compensatory tissues so rapidly that reproduction can sometimes increase with light damage (Strauss & Agrawal 1999, Stowe et al. 2000).

The common weed known as white clover releases toxic cyanide when its leaf tissues are damaged. This chemical defense, a response called cyanogenesis, helps it to deter insect pests. Research ...

Clearly, snail and insect herbivory is reduced by increasing levels of sand on leaves and stems. Skip to main content Search. Enter the terms you wish to search for. This site. All of Colorado.edu.

by Caleb Hess, Michigan State University October 8, 2024. In a new paper appearing in the journal Ecology, Michigan State University ecologists explore the impacts of warming temperatures and insect ...

For plants, it’s a try-not-to-get-eaten world, where photosynthetic organisms have evolved many different physical and chemical defenses to avoid attack from hungry plant-eating animals and insects.

Add more sand, and the plant suffers less herbivory. While sand verbena has a large geographic range, some species of Abronia have tiny geographic distributions. One example is Yellowstone sand ...