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The Tomato Strikes Back: Plant Response To Environmental Stress, Maya K. Davis, Erinn Dady, Esther N. Ngumbi
The Tomato Strikes Back: Plant Response To Environmental Stress, Maya K. Davis, Erinn Dady, Esther N. Ngumbi
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Introduction
- Tomato is an important vegetable. Its production is threatened due to altered weather patterns which increase environmental stressors such as flooding1, 2 and herbivory3 to crops.
- Plants respond in many ways. Stressed plants strike back to environmental stress by altering their chemistry4:
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emissions
- Defensive secondary metabolites2
- Stress induced physiological changes in plants impact growth and development of insects.
- This study is broken into two experiments:
- The plant response to flooding stress
- The insect performance on flooded plants