Biologically, jasmonic acid is like our internal alarm system—it triggers protease inhibitors to mess with an insect's digestion, a neat chemical defence. But studying it in a Delhi lab, surrounded by concrete, the textbook answer feels distant. My real lesson came watching my mother's tambdi bhaji in Goa; when beetles attacked, neighbouring plants would toughen up—a whole community whispering warnings we're only now learning to measure. The books call it 'distress signals,' but back home, we just call it survival.
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