The dilemma of plants: to grow or defend

DA Herms, WJ Mattson - The quarterly review of biology, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
Physiological and ecological constraints play key roles in the evolution of plant growth
patterns, especially in relation to defenses against herbivores. Phenotypic and life history …

Host plant quality and fecundity in herbivorous insects

CS Awmack, SR Leather - Annual review of entomology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Host plant quality is a key determinant of the fecundity of herbivorous insects.
Components of host plant quality (such as carbon, nitrogen, and defensive metabolites) …

Higher plant terpenoids: a phytocentric overview of their ecological roles

JH Langenheim - Journal of chemical ecology, 1994 - Springer
Characteristics of higher plant terpenoids that result in mediation of numerous kinds of
ecological interactions are discussed as a framework for this Symposium on Chemical …

[BOOK][B] Herbivores: their interactions with secondary plant metabolites: ecological and evolutionary processes

GA Rosenthal, MR Berenbaum - 2012 - books.google.com
This volume presents the latest research on herbivores, aquatic and terrestrial mammals
and insects. The Second Edition, written almost entirely by new authors, effectively …

[BOOK][B] Host plant resistance to insects.

N Panda, GA Khush - 1995 - cabidigitallibrary.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Plant defence against herbivory and insect adaptations

AR War, GK Taggar, B Hussain, MS Taggar… - AoB plants, 2018 - academic.oup.com
There is always a silent war between plants and herbivorous insects that we are rarely privy
to. In this silent war, chemicals act as both weapons and messengers. Insect–plant co …

[BOOK][B] Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms

D Soltis, P Soltis, P Endress, M Chase, S Manchester… - 2018 - books.google.com
Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135?
170 million years ago, angiosperms—or flowering plants—are the most diverse and species …

Nicotine's defensive function in nature

A Steppuhn, K Gase, B Krock, R Halitschke… - PLoS …, 2004 - journals.plos.org
Plants produce metabolites that directly decrease herbivore performance, and as a
consequence, herbivores are selected for resistance to these metabolites. To determine …

Plant species identity and diversity effects on different trophic levels of nematodes in the soil food web

GB De Deyn, CE Raaijmakers, J Van Ruijven… - Oikos, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies on biodiversity and soil food web composition have mentioned plant
species identity, as well as plant species diversity as the main factors affecting the …

Plant defense and insect adaptation with reference to secondary metabolites

AR War, AA Buhroo, B Hussain, T Ahmad… - Co-evolution of …, 2020 - Springer
Insects pose a great threat to plants, and plants, in turn, withstand to insect attack through
various morphological and biochemical traits. Among the plant defensive traits, secondary …