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Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars (arstechnica.com)
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When they’re being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec3229

A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Learned about kairomones for the first time in the past month or two, it feels like an explosion of biological possibility opening up.