mechanistic
Analysis v1
Strong Support
When bugs eat plants, the plants send out a smell that calls in the bugs' enemies—like a plant version of calling the police to arrest the intruders.
1
0
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (1)
1
Community contributions welcome
1
Plants get attacked by bugs, so they release smelly chemicals into the air that call in other bugs (like wasps) to eat the attackers—this study says that’s a real and important plant defense trick.
Contradicting (0)
0
Community contributions welcome
No contradicting evidence found
Gold Standard Evidence Needed
According to GRADE and EBM methodology, here is what ideal scientific evidence would look like to definitively prove or disprove this specific claim, ordered from strongest to weakest evidence.