Predation, herbivory, and parasitism are specific ... fly trap captures an insect between the two lobes of a leaf and seals the insect inside with digestive enzymes. These plants absorb nutrients ...

I believe most of us have a sense of what genetic engineering is all about — a method of inserting one or more genes of one ...

Trichomes are extensions of the epidermis that can prevent insect ... herbivory by producing hard, rigid leaves (i.e., sclerophylly) and stems that are difficult to chew (Figure 3e). Leaf ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory ... into the leaf tissue, creating lesions surrounded by scar tissue. A scientific illustration of an ancient insect ...

“We demonstrated that horizontal gene transfer is quite common in leaf beetles,” said Kirsch. “Both symbiosis and horizontal ...

More information: Christin Walther et al, A Fungal Endophyte Alters Poplar Leaf Chemistry, Deters Insect Feeding and Shapes Insect Community Assembly, Ecology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1111/ele.