Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory - Schaller, Andreas; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Basic Concepts of Plant Defense Against Insect Herbivores -- Direct Defenses in Plants and Their Induction by Wounding and Insect Herbivores -- Herbivore-Induced Indirect Defense: From Induction Mechanisms to Community Ecology -- Induced Defenses and the Cost-Benefit Paradigm -- Induced Direct Defenses -- Leaf Trichome Formation and Plant Resistance to Herbivory -- Resistance at the Plant Cuticle -- Wound-Periderm Formation -- Traumatic Resin Ducts and Polyphenolic Parenchyma Cells in Conifers -- Production of Secondary Metabolites -- Insect-Induced Terpenoid Defenses in Spruce -- Phenylpropanoid Metabolism Induced by Wounding and Insect Herbivory -- Defense by Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids: Developed by Plants and Recruited by Insects -- Anti-nutritional Enzymes and Proteins -- Plant Protease Inhibitors: Functional Evolution for Defense -- Defensive Roles of Polyphenol Oxidase in Plants -- Action of Plant Defensive Enzymes in the Insect Midgut -- Plant Lectins as Part of the Plant Defense System Against Insects -- Defense Signaling -- Systemins and AtPeps: Defense-Related Peptide Signals -- MAP Kinases in Plant Responses to Herbivory -- Jasmonate Biosynthesis and Signaling for Induced Plant Defense against Herbivory -- Signals Between Plants and Insects -- Caterpillar Secretions and Induced Plant Responses -- Fatty Acid-Derived Signals that Induce or Regulate Plant Defenses Against Herbivory -- Aromatic Volatiles and Their Involvement in Plant Defense -- Ecological Roles of Vegetative Terpene Volatiles.
Keywords: Plant science; Botany; Biochemistry; Plant physiology; Plant ecology; Plant biochemistry; Plant genetics; Plant Sciences; Biochemistry, general; Plant Physiology; Plant Ecology; Plant Biochemistry; Plant Genetics and Genomics