Answering the Cry for Help

Plants are faced with various biotic and abiotic stresses during their life cycle. To withstand these stresses, plants have evolved adaptive strategies including the production of a wide array of primary and secondary metabolites. Some of these metabolites can have direct defensive effects, while others act as chemical cues attracting beneficial (micro)organisms for protection. Similar to aboveground plant tissues, plant roots also appear to have evolved “a cry for help” response upon exposure to stress, leading to the recruitment of beneficial microorganisms to help minimize the damage caused by the stress. Furthermore, emerging evidence indicates that microbial recruitment to the plant roots is, at least in part, mediated by quantitative and/or qualitative changes in root exudate composition. Both volatile and water-soluble compounds have been implicated as important signals for the recruitment and activation of beneficial root-associated microbes. Here we provide an overview of our current understanding of belowground chemical communication, particularly how stressed plants shape its protective root microbiome.

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Essential Oils as “A Cry for Help”. A Review

Natural Product Communications ◽

10.1177/1934578x1501000678 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 1934578X1501000 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christine Zitzelsberger ◽

Gerhard Buchbauer

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Response ◽

Indirect Defense ◽

Point Of View ◽

Behavioral Traits ◽

The Third ◽

Cry For Help ◽

Third Trophic Level ◽

Crucial Information ◽

Herbivore Induced Plant Volatiles ◽

Synthetic Pesticides

This work is an update of a recently published review and is consistently referred to this article and recent findings about plants’ indirect defense are added on. Herbivore induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) and their effects on the third trophic level that involves predators and parasitoids are discussed. The fact that plants are not passive individuals is confirmed on the basis of several studies. Plants can perceive and respond to cues in their environments with plastic morphological, physiological and behavioral traits. Plasticity allows plants to tailor their defenses to their current and expected risks caused by herbivores. The “cry for help” of plants is also observed from the carnivores’ point of view. The volatile mixture contains crucial information for decisions of carnivorous insects. Furthermore, the most important methods to examine the behavioral response of carnivorous insects to HIPVs are presented not only in laboratory set ups but also in the field. Manipulations of plants by silencing genes or over-expressing genes can help to understand mechanisms of indirect defense. Various interesting examples of indirect defense reveal the possibility to use HIPVs in biological control. Therefore, the application of synthetic pesticides, that pollute the environment, may be reduced in the future.

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Detection of a Cry for Help on the MMPI--2: An Analog Investigation

Journal of Personality Assessment ◽

10.1207/s15327752jpa6701_2 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 26-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

David T.R. Berry ◽

Jennifer J. Adams ◽

Cynthia D. Clark ◽

Sonja R. Thacker ◽

Tamme L. Burger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cry For Help

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Байгаль, экологийн сэдэвт монголын аман болон орчин үеийн яруу найргийн бүтээлүүд (= Произведения устной и современной поэзии о природе и экологии)

Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук ◽

10.22162/2587-6503-2020-3-15-189-206 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Alimaa A. ◽

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Tseveendorj D. ◽

Keyword(s):

Historical Memory ◽

Social Changes ◽

Nature Protection ◽

Protection Measures ◽

Cry For Help ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Man And Nature ◽

Freshwater Reservoir ◽

And Control

The social priorities of literature are the tribune of environmental idiology. Today, in the Mongolian literature, the direction of ecocriticism has been established. This article makes an analysis in traditional Mongolian poetry and modern poetry on the topic of nature conservation and ecology. In Mongolian folklore praise the purity of nature and the motherland. His idol of pure nature is praise and praise. But each species has its own color. The topic of nature protection in Mongolian folklore (Orthodoxy, Magtaal-praise, Tuul-epic, du-folk songs and myth) is that a person should not control and control nature but understand and convert to nature as a living creature; means that people will have a natural relationship, a balanced and safe life. Probably, there is not a single poet of Mongolia who does not address the topic of “man and nature”. Each in its own way perceives nature, and each in its own way revealing to the reader the world of nature and himself in this world. The space of the “Mongolian spirit” created by the poet is filled with natural landscapes, people, and historical memory. His ancestors and descendants, the dead and living, are called upon to preserve this space and believing that nature and civilization can exist in equal harmony, he would like to reconcile them among themselves. Therefore, the poems of Mongolian poets writing about nature sound like a distress signal, like a cry for help to nature. This is a feature. That is why Mongolian writers have initiated environmental protection measures. They stopped the construction of a chemical plant on Lake Hubsgul. The lake is the main freshwater reservoir in the world. Mongolian writers also warned that the pine forest “Tuzin Nars” was destroyed in nature every year billions of tons of waste. With such an attitude of man to nature on Earth there will soon be nothing left. There are examples of the writer C. Galsan, who planted 360 thousand trees. In this article we propose that we do not limit the observation and conclusions about the mastery of writers to the nature of the writings, but take into account personal, mental and social changes in the environment.

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A Cry for Help: Exploring the Relationship between Perceived Social Support and Quality of Life in Infertile Women of South India

10.36295/asro.2020.2323123 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (23) ◽

Author(s):

Siddharth R ◽

Dr. Nisha B ◽

Dr. Timsi Jain ◽

Dr. Anantha Eashwar ◽

Dr Ruma Dutta

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Support ◽

South India ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Infertile Women ◽

Cry For Help ◽

The Relationship

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A Cry for Help: A Note in the Margin of Acts 16:9

The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition ◽

10.1163/9789004247727_009 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 115-127

Keyword(s):

Cry For Help

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On hating and despising legal philosophy

Journal of Legal Philosophy ◽

10.4337/jlp.2021.01.02 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 29-50

Author(s):

Jesse Wall

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Legal Theory ◽

Critical Distance ◽

Legal Philosophy ◽

Philosophical Practice ◽

Current Form ◽

Philosophical Inquiry ◽

Cry For Help ◽

The Subject ◽

Legal Theorist

This article is a cry for help. It is a search for some possible view of legal philosophy that does not render it either intrinsically useless or useless in its current form. In this article I focus on two methodological hallmarks of contemporary anglophone legal philosophy. The first is the Archimedean way in which the legal theorist places a critical distance between him- or herself and the subject matter of the philosophical inquiry. The second is the introverted way in which the accuracy of any given legal theory is confined to the theorist’s own puzzles, concerns, controversies, and preoccupations. Whilst I consider those who have turned against these methodological commitments and called for an anti-Archimedean or extroverted approach to legal theory, I explain how those who accept both commitments adopt a very modest view of the helpfulness of legal philosophy. I then consider whether, contrary to the modest view, if we accept both commitments, then whatever is true in legal philosophy will always be trivially true, irrelevant, or inconsequential, for any non-philosophical practice or non-philosophical inquiry about the law. The value of this article, I hope, lies in its refutation.

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