Higher plants synthesize an amazing diversity of phenolic secondary metabolites. Phenolics
are defined secondary metabolites or natural products because, originally, they were …

Plants co-evolved with an enormous variety of microbial pathogens and insect herbivores
under daily and seasonal variations in abiotic environmental conditions. Hence, plant cells …

Plant phenolics are secondary metabolites that encompass several classes structurally
diverse of natural products biogenetically arising from the shikimate-phenylpropanoids …

The genetics of arthropod resistance have been studied since the early 20th century, when
Harlan (1916) demonstrated that resistance to the leaf blister mite, Eriophyes gossypii …

Plant secondary metabolism constitutes a large reservoir of natural chemical diversity that
encompasses an enormous range of compounds and enzymes, and a wide spectrum of …

Aphids damage major world food and fiber crops through direct feeding and transmission of
plant viruses. Fortunately, the development of many aphid‐resistant crop plants has …

Little is known about how drought stress influences plant secondary metabolite
accumulation and how this affects plant defense against different aphids. We therefore …

Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) has become a key insect pest of agricultural
and horticultural crops worldwide. Little is known about host plant resistance to thrips. In this …

• Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) can display a plant-associated lifestyle as endophytes.
Seed application of EPF can affect insect herbivory above ground, but the mechanisms …

Tea is a very popular and healthy nonalcoholic beverage worldwide. As an evergreen
woody plant, the cultivation of tea plants (Camellia sinensis) is challenged by biotic stresses …