EcologybioRxivPreprint
Volatile compounds released by undamaged plants influence the adaptive growth strategies of neighboring plants
Andre Abonde, Merlin Rensing, Jannicke Gallinger…·Velemir Ninkovic
The paper shows that barley plants use constitutive VOCs from undamaged neighbors to adjust their growth-defense trade-off based on neighbor growth rate.
DOI 10.1101/2025.08.15.670058