Wesley Borges Wurlitzer

, , , et al. 2026. “Quantitative and Hierarchical Coordination of Growth and Defense in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Under Increasing Tissue Damage.” Plant, Cell & Environment0: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.70697. Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement All data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.

1 Introduction Soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) are one of the most important agricultural crops worldwide, particularly due to their economic and social relevance in the production of vegetable oil and protein-rich feed. However, soybean yield is often compromised by biotic factors, especially the action of insect pests. Among them, Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) stands out as one of the main defoliating pests of soybean (Silvestre et al.

All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.