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How Plants Communicate with Their Biotic Environment addresses how plants perceive the presence of organisms (other plants, microbes, insects and nematodes) living in their proximity, how they manage to be attractive when these organisms are friendly, and how they defend themselves from foes. Specific chapters delve into ecology and defense mechanisms, allelopathy and the role of allelochemicals in plant defense, plant signaling, and plant communication with microbes and animals, including herbivores. In addition, the book presents discussions on communication and its role in plant pollination. This comprehensive resource presents tactics that can be taken from the lab, to the bench, to the forest.
List of contents
Part 1: Plant-Plant Communication1. From the Lab Bench to the Forest: Ecology and Defence Mechanisms of Volatile-Mediated 'Talking Trees'2. Allelopathy and the Role of Allelochemicals in Plant Defence3. Communication Between Host Plants and Parasitic Plants4. Plant-Plant Communication Through Common Mycorrhizal Networks
Part 2: Plant Communication With Microbes5. Plant Communication With Associated Microbiota in the Spermosphere, Rhizosphere and Phyllosphere6. Chatting With a Tiny Belowground Member of the Holobiome: Communication Between Plants and Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria7. Effector-Mediated Communication of Filamentous Plant Pathogens With Their Hosts8. Commonalities in Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Signalling
Part 3: Plant Communication With Animals9. Plant-Pollinator Communication10. Mimicry and Deception in Pollination11. Plant Communication With Herbivores12. Communication of Sedentary Plant-Parasitic Nematodes With Their Host Plants
