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Plants use chemical messengers like jasmonic acid to fight bugs by making toxins and sticky proteins, but another chemical, salicylic acid, can sometimes turn off the bug-fighting response to balance energy use.
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The study says that plants use three chemical signals—jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, and ethylene—to fight off bugs, and that these signals work together to make defensive chemicals, which matches what the claim says.
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