Trade-offs between plant growth and defense against insect herbivory: an emerging mechanistic synthesis

T Züst, AA Agrawal - Annual review of plant biology, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Costs of defense are central to our understanding of interactions between organisms and
their environment, and defensive phenotypes of plants have long been considered to be …

The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences

DW Kikuchi, WL Allen, K Arbuckle… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Prey seldom rely on a single type of antipredator defence, often using multiple defences to
avoid predation. In many cases, selection in different contexts may favour the evolution of …

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

N Gross, FT Maestre, P Liancourt, M Berdugo, R Martin… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Earth harbours an extraordinary plant phenotypic diversity that is at risk from ongoing global
changes,. However, it remains unknown how increasing aridity and livestock grazing …

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

IJ Wright, N Dong, V Maire, IC Prentice, M Westoby… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Leaf size varies by over a 100,000-fold among species worldwide. Although 19th-century
plant geographers noted that the wet tropics harbor plants with exceptionally large leaves …

Linking rhizosphere soil microbial activity and plant resource acquisition strategy

M Han, Y Chen, L Sun, M Yu, R Li, S Li, J Su… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants live in association with a diversity of soil microorganisms, which are extremely
important in affecting plant growth and soil biogeochemical cycling. By adopting plant trait …

Model‐based approaches to unconstrained ordination

FKC Hui, S Taskinen, S Pledger… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Unconstrained ordination is commonly used in ecology to visualize multivariate data, in
particular, to visualize the main trends between different sites in terms of their species …

Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science

J Atkinson, R Gallagher, S Czyżewski, M Kerr… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Trophic rewilding is gaining rapid momentum as a means of restoration across the world.
Advances in research are elucidating the wide‐ranging effects of trophic rewilding and …

Future of antimicrobial peptides derived from plants in food application–A focus on synthetic peptides

LN Shwaiki, KM Lynch, EK Arendt - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Background Food spoilage is caused by the undesirable growth of spoilage microorganisms
in food products. This spoilage can lead to the global loss and waste of food. It is estimated …

Which leaf mechanical traits correlate with insect herbivory among feeding guilds?

E Caldwell, J Read, GD Sanson - Annals of botany, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims There is abundant evidence that leaf mechanical traits deter
feeding by insect herbivores, but little is known about which particular traits contribute to …

The gut microbiota in camellia weevils are influenced by plant secondary metabolites and contribute to saponin degradation

S Zhang, J Shu, H Xue, W Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Liu… - Msystems, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
The camellia weevil (CW [Curculio chinensis]) is a notorious host-specific predator of the
seeds of Camellia species in China, causing seed losses of up to 60%. The weevil is …