Plants have been interacting with insects for several hundred million years, leading to
complex defense approaches against various insect feeding strategies. Some defenses are …

Many plants contain carbohydrate-binding proteins that are commonly designated as lectins,
agglutinins, or hemagglutinins. Due to the obvious differences in molecular structure …

The current concepts of host plant resistance to insects are reviewed in this book. The broad
coverage includes crop plant and insect diversity, mechanisms of insect-plant interactions …

Breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses of global importance in common bean
is reviewed with emphasis on development and application of marker-assisted selection …

To meet the demands for food of the expanding world population, there is need of new ways
for protecting plant crops against predators and pathogens while avoiding the use of …

This paper reviews the origins and general botany of Phaseolus vulgaris, the different
crop** systems used for bean production, the agronomic and biological factors which …

Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that bind glycans of glycoproteins, glycolipids, or
polysaccharides with high affinity (Goldstein and Hayes, 1978). Because of their binding …

The legume lectins are a large family of homologous carbohydrate binding proteins that are
found mainly in the seeds of most legume plants. Despite their strong similarity on the level …

Knowledge, access, and use of diversity available in cultivated and wild relatives are
essential for broadening the genetic base of cultivars to sustain improvement. My objectives …

The concept of gene-for-gene coevolution is a major model for research on the evolution of
resistance against parasites in crop plants, reciprocal evolution between species in natural …