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Adaptations to biotic and abiotic stress: Macaranga-ant plants optimize investment in biotic defence.

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Airborne induction and priming of plant defenses against a bacterial pathogen.

scientific article published on 7 October 2009

All Set before Flowering: A 16S Gene Amplicon-Based Analysis of the Root Microbiome Recruited by Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Its Centre of Domestication

scientific article published in 2022

Bacterial associates of arboreal ants and their putative functions in an obligate ant-plant mutualism.

scientific article published on 15 May 2009

Biochemical Traits in the Flower Lifetime of a Mexican Mistletoe Parasitizing Mesquite Biomass.

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Colonization by Phloem-Feeding Herbivore Overrides Effects of Plant Virus on Amino Acid Composition in Phloem of Chili Plants

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Commentary on Grandellis et al. 2019: suggesting endogenous DNA as further player in the plant immune response to DOTAP

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Covariation and phenotypic integration in chemical communication displays: biosynthetic constraints and eco-evolutionary implications.

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Damaged-self recognition as a general strategy for injury detection

scientific article published on April 20, 2012

Damaged-self recognition in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) shows taxonomic specificity and triggers signaling via reactive oxygen species (ROS).

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Damaged-self recognition in plant herbivore defence.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Danger signals - damaged-self recognition across the tree of life.

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Distance and sex determine host plant choice by herbivorous beetles.

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Ecological costs of induced resistance.

scientific article published in August 2002

Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation.

scientific article published on 17 May 2013

Explaining evolution of plant communication by airborne signals.

scientific article published in March 2010

Extracellular ATP activates MAPK and ROS signaling during injury response in the fungus Trichoderma atroviride

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Extracellular self-DNA as a damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) that triggers self-specific immunity induction in plants.

scientific article published on 14 October 2017

Extrafloral nectar at the plant-insect interface: a spotlight on chemical ecology, phenotypic plasticity, and food webs.

scientific article published on January 2015

Glucanases and chitinases as causal agents in the protection of Acacia extrafloral nectar from infestation by phytopathogens.

scientific article published on 18 December 2009

Growth inhibition by self-DNA: a phenomenon and its multiple explanations

scientific article published on 01 August 2015

Herbivore-induced volatiles as rapid signals in systemic plant responses: how to quickly move the information?

scientific article published on May 2007

Host plant use by competing acacia-ants: mutualists monopolize while parasites share hosts.

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Indirect defence via tritrophic interactions.

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Induced resistance enzymes in wild plants-do 'early birds' escape from pathogen attack?

scientific article published on 24 June 2006

Interview with Martin Heil

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

Isolating intact chloroplasts from small Arabidopsis samples for proteomic studies.

scientific article published on 14 November 2009

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the plant‐ant Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae) and cross‐testing for two congeneric species

scientific article published on February 25, 2009

Life histories of hosts and pathogens predict patterns in tropical fungal plant diseases.

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Long-distance signalling in plant defence.

scientific article published on 17 May 2008

Low chitinase activity in Acacia myrmecophytes: a potential trade-off between biotic and chemical defences?

scientific article published in December 2000

Manipulators live better, but are they always parasites?

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Nectar: generation, regulation and ecological functions

scientific article published on February 21, 2011

Nightshade Wound Secretion: The World's Simplest Extrafloral Nectar?

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Nucleic Acid Sensing in Mammals and Plants: Facts and Caveats

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Nutrient availability and indirect (biotic) defence in a Malaysian ant-plant

scientific article published on February 2001

On benefits of indirect defence: short- and long-term studies of antiherbivore protection via mutualistic ants.

scientific article published on February 2001

Optimizing Crops for Biocontrol of Pests and Disease

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Order of arrival shifts endophyte-pathogen interactions in bean from resistance induction to disease facilitation

scientific article published on 03 June 2014

Partner manipulation stabilises a horizontally transmitted mutualism.

scientific article published on 4 November 2013

Pathogenesis-related proteins protect extrafloral nectar from microbial infestation.

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Phloem sugar flux and jasmonic acid-responsive cell wall invertase control extrafloral nectar secretion in Ricinus communis

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

Polygynous supercolonies of the acacia-ant Pseudomyrmex peperi, an inferior colony founder.

scientific article published on 29 October 2009

Postsecretory hydrolysis of nectar sucrose and specialization in ant/plant mutualism

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2005)

Priming of indirect defences.

scientific article published in July 2006

Qualitative variability of lima bean's VOC bouquets and its putative ecological consequences.

scientific article published on November 2008

Quantitative effects of cyanogenesis on an adapted herbivore.

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Quantitative variability of direct chemical defense in primary and secondary leaves of lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) and consequences for a natural herbivore.

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Recognizing Plant Defense Priming.

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Reduced Responsiveness to Volatile Signals Creates a Modular Reward Provisioning in an Obligate Food-for-Protection Mutualism

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Relevance versus reproducibility-solving a common dilemma in chemical ecology.

scientific article published in April 2014

Self-DNA Sensing Fuels HIV-1-Associated Inflammation

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Sources of specificity in plant damaged-self recognition.

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Strategies of a parasite of the ant-Acacia mutualism.

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Sweet smells prepare plants for future stress: airborne induction of plant disease immunity.

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Symptomless endophytic fungi suppress endogenous levels of salicylic acid and interact with the jasmonate-dependent indirect defense traits of their host, lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus)

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

The Microbe-Free Plant: Fact or Artifact?

scientific article published on December 29, 2011

The defensive role of volatile emission and extrafloral nectar secretion for lima bean in nature.

scientific article published on 12 December 2007

The role of extrafloral nectar amino acids for the preferences of facultative and obligate ant mutualists.

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Unifying concepts and mechanisms in the specificity of plant-enemy interactions.

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

Volatile dose and exposure time impact perception in neighboring plants

scientific article published on 12 February 2012