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Plant defense : warding off attack by pathogens, pests and vertebrate herbivores /
Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to neighbouring plants, how plants coordinate defence responses to simultaneous multiple attacks, and the energy and resources expended by a plant in maintaining and implementing its defence systems. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781444328554 1444328557 |