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Plant Responses

by Sue Lee and Victoria Wu

Figure 2A

Tropisms

Figure 1

Plant Communication:

What we used to think...

Table 4

Chemotropism

Phototropism

Table 1

Dazzler and McNeal as Alternative Hosts

Impatiens and Triticum as Alternative Hosts

Figure 2B

Plants

more than just a salad

Implications

  • chemical signals -> growth
  • host location and selection mechanisms
  • similar to insect herbivores

Q1: What are tropisms?

What does this mean?

How is this information valuble?

Sources

Future Directions

carbon

  • Veganstreet.com
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/internal-clock-helps-young-sunflowers-follow-sun
  • http://www.mammothmemory.net/biology/tropism-in-plants/other-tropisms.html
  • Credit: Nigel Cattlin / Alamy http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet
  • http://xfrog.com/product/EA03.html
  • http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet
  • http://www.gullosgc.com/plants/impatiens-walleriana/
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triticum_aestivum_(3849807244).jpg
  • Volatile Chemical Cues Guide Host Location and Host Selection by Parasitic Plants. J. B. Runyon, et al. Science 313, 2006.
  • http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/808
  • https://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/blogs/dodder-vine-plant-communication

Thoughts?

How are plants more "living" than we thought?

Experimental Question: Do plant volatiles play a role in parasites' location of hosts?

Cuscuta pentagona latches onto tomato plant

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