Date: 3/04/2021 14:55:25
From: buffy
ID: 1719536
Subject: Brassicas and Butterflies

This one is open access.

Sci Am: “A few plants in the cabbage and mustard family pay a dramatic price to fend off hungry caterpillars: They kill off patches of their own leaves where butterflies have laid eggs. Depriced of a living anchor, the eggs shrivel and die. These plants’ egg-slaying abilities have been documented since at least the 1980s, but a new study shows they appear in just a few closely related plants in this family – and they are triggered only by certain butterfly species”

The paper mentioned:

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17145

“Insect egg‐killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms‐race between brassicaceous plants and pierid butterflies”

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Date: 3/04/2021 15:33:28
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1719538
Subject: re: Brassicas and Butterflies

buffy said:


This one is open access.

Sci Am: “A few plants in the cabbage and mustard family pay a dramatic price to fend off hungry caterpillars: They kill off patches of their own leaves where butterflies have laid eggs. Depriced of a living anchor, the eggs shrivel and die. These plants’ egg-slaying abilities have been documented since at least the 1980s, but a new study shows they appear in just a few closely related plants in this family – and they are triggered only by certain butterfly species”

The paper mentioned:

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17145

“Insect egg‐killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms‐race between brassicaceous plants and pierid butterflies”

Plants are smarter than you think.

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Date: 3/04/2021 15:49:02
From: SCIENCE
ID: 1719540
Subject: re: Brassicas and Butterflies

Ah how wonderful is our God the Great Designer of this Creation.

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Date: 3/04/2021 22:09:55
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1719694
Subject: re: Brassicas and Butterflies

PermeateFree said:


buffy said:

This one is open access.

Sci Am: “A few plants in the cabbage and mustard family pay a dramatic price to fend off hungry caterpillars: They kill off patches of their own leaves where butterflies have laid eggs. Depriced of a living anchor, the eggs shrivel and die. These plants’ egg-slaying abilities have been documented since at least the 1980s, but a new study shows they appear in just a few closely related plants in this family – and they are triggered only by certain butterfly species”

The paper mentioned:

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17145

“Insect egg‐killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms‐race between brassicaceous plants and pierid butterflies”

Plants are smarter than you think.

Agree. The “brain” is overrated.

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Date: 7/04/2021 00:55:11
From: Ogmog
ID: 1721336
Subject: re: Brassicas and Butterflies

Evolution is an on-going arms race.

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Date: 7/04/2021 06:23:09
From: roughbarked
ID: 1721346
Subject: re: Brassicas and Butterflies

Plants have always been smarter than WE think.
They simply take longer to think and act.
We could take a leaf out of their book.

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