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Tomato plants that have been damaged by herbivorous insects emit airborne chemicals that warn neighbours of an impending attack. It emerges that the receiving plants transform these signals into defensive weapons.

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Figure 1: Plant odours as alarm signals.

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  1. Mark C. Mescher and Consuelo M. De Moraes are in the Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.,

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