Plant Volatile Signaling
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🟢 Healthy plant
🟡 Jasmonate cascade
🟠 Emitting volatiles (HIPVs)
🔵 Primed neighbor
🔴 Being eaten
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs): damaged plants release green leaf volatiles, terpenes & jasmonates that prime neighboring plants' defenses — a chemical language across the plant kingdom.