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Insect-Plant Biology

Name: Insect-Plant Biology
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04527256
Price: 237.29 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Louis M. Schoonhoven
ISBN: 9780198525943

Louis M. Schoonhoven

Joop J.A. van Loon

Marcel Dicke

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04527256

Publishers Oxford University Press, December 2005

Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10 per cent of pla... Full description

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Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10 per cent of plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural systems, despite sophisticated control measures. Plants possess defences that are effective against almost all herbivorous insect species. Host-plant specialization, observed in over 80 percent of these animals, appears to be an effective adaptation to breach these defence systems. The mechanisms underlying plant defence to invading herbivores on the one side, and insect adaptations to utilize plants for nutrition, defence and shelter on the other, are the main subjects of this book. For plants exposed to insect herbivores, these mechanisms include the activation of defence systems and the emission of chemical signals which may attract natural enemies of the invading herbivores and may even be exploited by neighbouring plants to induce an early defence.