Salicylates are also found in many common foods, including berries, almonds, peanuts, celery, cinnamon, etc
In response to herbivorous insect attack or wounding at local leaves, wound signaling molecules are released at the damaged plant cells, and may bind corresponding receptors to trigger propagation of slow wave potentials (SWPs) 6,7,8,9 , initiate transmission of cytoplasmic calcium ([Ca 2+ ] cyt ) 10,11,12,13,14,15 , and consequently activate biosynthesis of defensive phytohormone jasmonic acid (JA), thereby mediating expression of defense-responsive genes for systemic defense responses in plants 7,8,11,12,16,17,18
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While its mechanism suggests it could lighten skin, only three small studies have tested it, and their follow-up periods were short
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