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Insect-Plant Interactions (1993) - Volume V

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Volume 5 of "Insect-Plant Interactions" is a volume in a series that presents research in the field. Topics covered include chemical changes in plants as a result of insects feeding on their leaves, dynamic elements of the use and avoidance of host plants by tephritid flies as a result of the presence of other flies, floral volatiles in insect biology, endophytic fungi as mediators of plant insect interactions, the cost of chemical defence against herbivory, and life history traits on insect herbivores in relation to host quality.

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Section 1 Biochemistry of Insect-Plant Interactions:
2 Herbivore Oral Secretions are the First Line of Protection Against Plant-Induced Defences 37
3 Insect Detoxification and Sequestration Strategies 77
4 Plant Semiochemicals – Perception and Behavioural Responses by Insects 115
Section 2 Genetics and Genomics of Insect-Plant Interactions:
5 Plant Transcriptomic Responses to Herbivory 155
6 Transcriptome Responses in Herbivorous Insects Towards Host Plant and Toxin Feeding 197
7 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plant Resistance to Insects 235
Section 3 Ecology and Evolution of Insect-Plant Interactions:
8 Costs of Resistance in Plants: From Theory to Evidence 263
9 Plant-mediated Interactions Among Insects within a Community Ecological Perspective 309
10 The Altitudinal Niche-Breadth Hypothesis in Insect-Plant Interactions 339
11 Revisiting Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution in the Molecular Biology Era 361

Info autore

Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.

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Autori Elizabeth A. Bernays
Con la collaborazione di Elizabeth A. Bernays (Editore)
Editore Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 20.09.2017
 
EAN 9781138506152
ISBN 978-1-138-50615-2
Pagine 256
Serie CRC Press Revivals
Categorie Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Zoologia

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences, Zoology: invertebrates

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