Extended Data Fig. 4: Herbivory-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) from rice or tea plants promote the performance and resistance of succeeding maize plants.
a–c, Growth phenotypes (a), shoot biomass (b), caterpillar weight gain (c) of wild-type (WT) maize plants growing in soils of Con- or HIPV-exposed rice WT plants or aoc mutants. Data are presented as mean + SEM. The exact number of biological replicates is indicated on each bar. Data points represent individual replicate samples. Asterisks denote significant differences between treatments (ANOVA followed by pairwise comparisons of FDR-corrected LSMeans, *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001). d–e, Shoot biomass (d) and caterpillar weight gain (e) of WT maize plants growing in soils of Con- or HIPV-exposed tea receiver plants. Data are presented as mean + SEM. The exact number of biological replicates is indicated on each bar. Data points represent individual replicate samples. Asterisks denote significant differences between treatments (two-sided Student’s t test, *P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001). Raw data and exact P values for all comparisons in this figure are provided in the Source Data.
