Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred
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Plant defense compounds play a key role in the evolution of insect–plant associations by
selecting for behavioral, morphological, and physiological insect adaptations. Sequestration …

Insect pests cause significant global agricultural damage and lead to major financial and
environmental costs. Crops contain intrinsic defenses to protect themselves from such pests …

Plants are a rich source of specialized metabolites with a broad range of bioactivities and
many applications in human daily life. Over the past decades significant progress has been …

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (P450 or CYP) plays an important role in the metabolism
of insecticides and plant allelochemicals by insects. CYP321B1, a novel Spodoptera litura …

The relationship between plants and insects is continuously evolving, and many insects rely
on biochemical strategies to mitigate the effects of toxic chemicals in their food plants …

Plants have evolved complex physical and chemical defense systems that allow them to
withstand herbivory infestation. Composed of a complex mixture of very‐long‐chain fatty …

One Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterial strain, isolated from an undescribed
Heterorhabditis entomopathogenic nematode species was characterized to determine its …

Highlights•Plant secondary metabolites can both help and harm natural enemies of
herbivores.•Engineering natural enemies promotes positive effects of plant …

Plant virus diseases seriously affect crop yield, especially tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and
cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). The development of plant immune activators has been an …