Living soil stores defensive memories against herbivores
show that foliar herbivory creates soil-borne defensive legacy via plant-soil feedback that enables undamaged plants that subsequently grow in the same living soil to recruit parasitoid wasps-a mechanism that holds promise for ecological pest management.
Authors
- Zhihui Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-8836)
Institutions
- Soil and Fertilizer Institute of Hunan Province (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cell Reports
- Published
- 2026-09-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117918
- Primary Topic
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00