Fertilizer and JA

Fertilizer has been shown to reduce the production of volatile organic compounds. Pests tend to prefer plants with fewer volatile organic compounds, and plants treated with more than enough fertilizer are preferable to pests (Islam et al. 2017). Heavily fertilized soil has been associated with less chemical defense compounds in plant leaves (Prudic et al. 2005). Less volatile organic compounds and fewer chemical defenses encourage herbivore consumption. A well fertilized plant treated with jasmonic acid should be more desirable to an herbivore than a poorly fertilized plant treated the same.