Plants respond to herbivory through sequential induction of cheaper defenses before more costly ones

• Jinlong Wan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution & Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

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• Jiahui Yi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution & Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Xiao Sun,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

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• Evan Siemann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Matthias Erb,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Wei Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: huangwei0519@wbgcas.cn

  Affiliations Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution & Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3760-6084

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