Role of glucosinolates in insect-plant relationships and multitrophic interactions

RJ Hopkins, NM van Dam… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Glucosinolates present classical examples of plant compounds affecting insect-plant
interactions. They are found mainly in the family Brassicaceae, which includes several …

Plant chemistry and natural enemy fitness: effects on herbivore and natural enemy interactions

PJ Ode - Annual review of entomology, 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Tremendous strides have been made regarding our understanding of how host
plant chemistry influences the interactions between herbivores and their natural enemies …

Biomechanical energy harvesting: generating electricity during walking with minimal user effort

JM Donelan, Q Li, V Naing, JA Hoffer, DJ Weber… - Science, 2008 - science.org
We have developed a biomechanical energy harvester that generates electricity during
human walking with little extra effort. Unlike conventional human-powered generators that …

Defence mechanisms of Brassicaceae: implications for plant-insect interactions and potential for integrated pest management

I Ahuja, J Rohloff, AM Bones - Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2, 2011 - Springer
Brassica crops are grown worldwide for oil, food and feed purposes, and constitute a
significant economic value due to their nutritional, medicinal, bioindustrial, biocontrol and …

Plant interactions with microbes and insects: from molecular mechanisms to ecology

CMJ Pieterse, M Dicke - Trends in plant science, 2007 - cell.com
Plants are members of complex communities and interact both with antagonists and
beneficial organisms. An important question in plant defense-signaling research is how …

The life-cycle

MA Jervis, MJW Copland, KS Shameer… - Jervis's Insects as Natural …, 2023 - Springer
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Ecological metabolomics: overview of current developments and future challenges

J Sardans, J Penuelas, A Rivas-Ubach - Chemoecology, 2011 - Springer
Ecometabolomics, which aims to analyze the metabolome, the total number of metabolites
and its shifts in response to environmental changes, is gaining importance in ecological …

Factors affecting the evolution of development strategies in parasitoid wasps: the importance of functional constraints and incorporating complexity

JA Harvey - Entomologia experimentalis et applicata, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Parasitoid wasps have long been considered as model organisms for examining optimal
resource allocation to different fitness functions, such as body size and development time …

Direct and indirect effects of resource quality on food web structure

T Bukovinszky, FJF van Veen, Y Jongema, M Dicke - Science, 2008 - science.org
The diversity and complexity of food webs (the networks of feeding relationships within an
ecological community) are considered to be important factors determining ecosystem …

Hyperparasitoids use herbivore-induced plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host

EH Poelman, M Bruinsma, F Zhu, BT Weldegergis… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Plants respond to herbivory with the emission of induced plant volatiles. These volatiles may
attract parasitic wasps (parasitoids) that attack the herbivores. Although in this sense the …