Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Schaller, Andreas. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.