Induced Responses to Herbivory /

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Plants face a daunting array of creatures that eat them, bore into them, and otherwise use virtually every plant part for food, shelter, or both. But although plants cannot flee from their attackers, they are far from defenseless. In addition to adaptations like thorns, which may be produced in resp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Karban, Richard (Autor), Baldwin, Ian T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
Colección:Interspecific Interactions
Temas:
SCIENCE / General.
herbivores, vegetables, plants, flora, plant, eating, food, animals, fauna, shelter, nature, natural world, defenses, defense, response, chemistry, physiology, biology, botany, thorns, adaptation, darwin, selection, genes, chemical, enzyme, evaluation, synthesis, academic, scholarly, research, college, university, higher education, textbook, agriculture, resistance.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 An Introduction to the Phenomena and Phenomenology of Induction
  • 2 How a Plant Perceives Damage and Signals Other Ramets, and the Specificity of These Processes
  • 3 Mechanisms of Induced Responses
  • 4 Induced Resistance against Herbivores
  • 5 Induced Defense and the Evolution of Induced Resistance
  • 6 Using Induced Resistance in Agriculture
  • References
  • Index

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