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Plant Defense Against Pathogen Attacks

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Secondary Metabolites in Plant Stress Adaptation

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Biotic stresses can provide from biological organisms that use plants as nutritive sources or from neighbor plants that compete for territory delimitation.

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Semmar, N. (2024). Plant Defense Against Pathogen Attacks. In: Secondary Metabolites in Plant Stress Adaptation. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52595-7_12

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