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Defensive plant coloration, morphology and movement, i.e., visual defenses, although variable as will be described and discussed in this book, are only a small part of the complicated and sophisticated anti-herbivory defense system employed by plants. In order to give the reader the right perspective, and to add to the previous chapter, below I describe the basics of their defensive system against other organisms. I stress that there is not a single species that has all these defenses together, but that this is the arsenal that evolution has allowed plants to possess. Since a full discussion of the defense system of plants will need a monograph larger than this book, I will present the data almost in the shape of an abstract.
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Lev-Yadun, S. (2016). The Many Defensive Mechanisms of Plants. In: Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42096-7_3
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