Plants Using Volatile Chemical Compounds for Defense

Alexandra Cook
ac8457@ship.edu
Faculty sponsor: Dr. Thomas Frielle
College of Arts and Science
Biology

Plants have to keep up with adaptions for defense mechanisms. They have been able to release a Terpene compound into the air to attract the predator of the animal eating the plant or having the compound smell so bad that it wards off the animal itself.

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