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ArticleAoB PLANTS2026

Woody seeds and seedlings are unresponsive to herbivore kairomones.

Kevin C Headrick, Brooke A Pellegrini, Eirette M Santiago, Katherine M Overstrum, Santhi P Bhavanam, Colin M Orians, John L Orrock, Evan L Preisser

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Article in AoB PLANTS, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Kevin C HeadrickDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, 200 College Ave, Medford, MA 02155, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8042-1168
Brooke A PellegriniDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 120 Flagg Rd, Kingston, RI 02881, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9310-1322
Eirette M SantiagoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 120 Flagg Rd, Kingston, RI 02881, United States.
Katherine M OverstrumDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 120 Flagg Rd, Kingston, RI 02881, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4215-5883
Santhi P BhavanamDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, 200 College Ave, Medford, MA 02155, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0125-6505
Colin M OriansDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, 200 College Ave, Medford, MA 02155, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3773-0894
John L OrrockDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin, 250 N Mills St, Madison, WI 53706, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0768-7389
Evan L PreisserDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 120 Flagg Rd, Kingston, RI 02881, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8737-5619

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herbivory is particularly threatening to young plants that lack the resources needed to survive an attack. Seeds and seedlings should thus benefit greatly from using pre-attack cues to induce defence before damage. Locomotion mucus from slugs, generalist herbivores that consume young plants, has been shown to speed germination, slow growth, and increase both chemical defences and resistance to herbivores in several herbaceous plants. Whether woody species exhibit similar responses has not been tested.

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germinationherbivorykairomonemolluskrisk

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PMID41834841
PMCPMC12980128

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