ArticlePlant physiology2012
Poplar extrafloral nectaries: two types, two strategies of indirect defenses against herbivores.
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- Deciphering histochemical and ultrastructural features of calyx nectaries to understand the secretory process in two species of Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae).Protoplasma · 2025Article
- Are ant-plant mutualisms stronger at lower latitudes? A case study using the castor bean plant.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Histochemical, metabolic and ultrastructural changes in leaf patelliform nectaries explain extrafloral nectar synthesis and secretion in Clerodendrum chinense.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Ultrastructural changes during nectar secretion from extrafloral nectaries of Pithecellobium dulce Benth.Protoplasma · 2023Article
- Extrafloral nectary-bearing plant Mallotus japonicus uses different types of extrafloral nectaries to establish effective defense by ants.Journal of plant research · 2019Article
- Chemical defense responses of upland cotton,Plant direct · 2019Article
- Nectar in Plant-Insect Mutualistic Relationships: From Food Reward to Partner Manipulation.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Review
- Biochemical Traits in the Flower Lifetime of a Mexican Mistletoe Parasitizing Mesquite Biomass.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
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- The Venus Flytrap Dionaea muscipula Counts Prey-Induced Action Potentials to Induce Sodium Uptake.Current biology : CB · 2016Article
- Calcium sensor kinase activates potassium uptake systems in gland cells of Venus flytraps.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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- Phloem sugar flux and jasmonic acid-responsive cell wall invertase control extrafloral nectar secretion in Ricinus communis.Journal of chemical ecology · 2014Article
- Nectar secretion requires sucrose phosphate synthases and the sugar transporter SWEET9.Nature · 2014Article
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- The diversity, ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries: current perspectives and future challenges.Annals of botany · 2013Article
- The protein composition of the digestive fluid from the venus flytrap sheds light on prey digestion mechanisms.Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP · 2012Article
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Abstract
Many plant species grow extrafloral nectaries and produce nectar to attract carnivore arthropods as defenders against herbivores. Two nectary types that evolved with Populus trichocarpa (Ptr) and Populus tremula × Populus tremuloides (Ptt) were studied from their ecology down to the genes and molecules. Both nectary types strongly differ in morphology, nectar composition and mode of secretion, and defense strategy. In Ptt, nectaries represent constitutive organs with continuous merocrine nectar flow, nectary appearance, nectar production, and flow. In contrast, Ptr nectaries were found to be holocrine and inducible. Neither mechanical wounding nor the application of jasmonic acid, but infestation by sucking insects, induced Ptr nectar secretion. Thus, nectaries of Ptr and Ptt seem to answer the same threat by the use of different mechanisms.
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