Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred
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Diverse molecular processes regulate the interactions between plants and insect
herbivores. Here, we review genes and proteins that are involved in plant–herbivore …

Plant defense against herbivores is costly and often associated with growth repression. The
phytohormone jasmonate (JA) plays a central role in prioritizing defense over growth during …

Plant immune responses mediated by the hormone jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine (JA-Ile) are
metabolically costly and often linked to reduced growth. Although it is known that JA-Ile …

Major strides have been made over the past decade in elucidating the mechanisms that
mediate shade-avoidance responses. The canonical PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING …

Plant growth and development has to be continuously adjusted to the available resources.
Their optimization requires the integration of signals conveying the plant metabolic status, its …

Over the years, jasmonates (JAs) have become recognized as one of the main plant
hormones that regulate stress responses by activating defense programs and the production …

Highlights•Antagonism between growth and defense is genetically programmed.•Jasmonate
controls carbon partitioning between primary and specialized metabolism.•Carbon sensing …

Auxin is a crucial growth regulator that governs plant development and responses to
environmental perturbations. It functions at the heart of many developmental processes, from …

Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are protective metabolites constitutively produced by
Solanaceae species. Genes and enzymes generating the vast structural diversity of SGAs …