IS HORMESIS EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN ESSENTIALLY ALL PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES?
This is likely to be the case, because the current hormesis data set of nearly 8,000 dose responses indicates that hormetic dose responses occur in several hundred plant species as well as in numerous microorganism and animal species [1,10,42]. Given this type of broad diversity of hormetic responses and the fact that hormesis serves a series of strong survival interests, it is likely to be a universal or near-universal phenomenon.
