2022-10-182022-10-182022https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111891These are the raw data associated with the publication "Metabolic Integration of Spectral and Chemical Cues Mediating Plant Responses to Competitors and Herbivores"., which was published in the journal "plants" in 2022.Light quality and chemicals in a plant’s environment can provide crucial information about the presence and nature of antagonists, such as competitors and herbivores. Here, we evaluate the roles of three sources of information—shifts in the red:far red (R:FR) ratio of light reflected off of potentially competing neighbors, induced metabolic changes to damage by insect herbivores, and induced changes to volatile organic compounds emitted from herbivore-damaged neighboring plants—to affect metabolic responses in the tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima. We address the hy-pothesis that plants integrate the information available about competitors and herbivory to opti-mize metabolic responses to interacting stressors by exposing plants to the different types of en-vironmental information in isolation and combination. We found strong interactions between the exposure to decreased R:FR light ratios and damage on the induction of secondary metabolites (volatile and non-volatile) in plants. Similarly, the perception of VOCs emitted from neighboring plants was altered by the simultaneous exposure to spectral cues from neighbors. These results suggest that plants integrate spectral and chemical environmental cues to change the production and perception of volatile and non-volatile compounds and highlight the role of plant con-text-dependent metabolic responses in mediating population and community dynamics.en-USCC0 1.0 Universalarticle