Caterpillar (VIDEO)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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As a cabbage caterpillar eats through leaves of the mustard plant Arabidopsis, a wave of calcium crossing the plant, revealed by fluorescent light, triggers defense responses in distant leaves.

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Simon Gilroy/UW-Madison

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