Examples of 'chemical defense' in a sentence

Meaning of "chemical defense"

chemical defense - Refers to the defense mechanism in organisms involving the production or release of chemicals to protect themselves from predators, pathogens, or other threats in the environment
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  • All the methods and procedures involved in defending against attack by chemical agents.

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These toxins serve as a chemical defense against predation.
Successful herbivore attack due to metabolic diversion of a plant chemical defense.
It also has a chemical defense.
The species they feed on determine the strength of their chemical defense.
Further experimentation suggested that chemical defense of queens is highly labile.
Chemical defense in tropical green algae, order Caulerpales.
It is believed that plants developed caffeine as a chemical defense against insects.
Patterns of chemical defense among Caribbean gorgonian corals, a preliminary survey.
Plants protect themselves against herbivores in many mechanical and chemical defense mechanisms.
They are intermediates in the chemical defense of some plants against attack by herbivores.
It is believed that acylsugars provide physical and / or chemical defense to the plant.
Furanocoumarins are chemical defense products found in many botanicals ( Guo and Yamazoe 2004 ).
In the stomach, gastric acid serves as a powerful chemical defense against ingested pathogens.
Chemical defense and cytochrome P450, relationship with the immune defense.
Few studies have shown the relation between chemical defense and the success in bioinvasion.

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Key words, ochratoxin A, Aspergillus carbonarius, sclerotia, Helicoverpa zea, Carpophilus hemipterus, antiinsectan, chemical defense.
In addition, transcript levels increased in response to chemical defense elicitors compared to MGA.

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