{"id":722635,"date":"2022-05-03T12:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=722635"},"modified":"2022-05-03T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:42:18","slug":"corn-genetic-heritage-the-strongest-driver-of-chemical-defenses-against-munching-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=722635","title":{"rendered":"Corn genetic heritage the strongest driver of chemical defenses against munching bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plants release chemical distress signals when under attack from chewing insects. These &#8220;911 calls,&#8221; as entomologist Esther Ngumbi refers to them, alert other bugs that dinner or a nice place to lay their eggs is available nearby. If predatory or parasitic insects detect the right signal, they swoop in like saviors to make a meal out of\u2014or lay their eggs in\u2014the bodies of the herbivore insects.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-05-corn-genetic-heritage-strongest-driver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Corn genetic heritage the strongest driver of chemical defenses against munching bugs<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants release chemical distress signals when under attack from chewing insects. These &#8220;911 calls,&#8221; as entomologist Esther Ngumbi refers to them, alert other bugs that dinner or a nice place&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}