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The ecology of plant secondary metabolites : from genes to global processes /

Provides a state-of-the-art review of recent conceptual developments concerning the roles of plant secondary metabolites in the natural environment.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Iason, Glenn R., 1958-, Dicke, Marcel, Hartley, Sue E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Ecological reviews.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The integrative roles of plant secondary metabolites in natural systems: a synthesis / Glenn R. Iason, Marcel Dicke, and Susan E. Hartley
  • Natural selection for anti-herbivore plant secondary metabolites: a eucalyptus system / Julianne M. O'Reilly-Wapstra, Clare McArthur and Brad M. Potts
  • Temporal changes in plant secondary metabolite production: patterns, causes, and consequences / Julia Koricheva and Kasey E. Barton
  • Mixtures in plant chemical defence: metabolic origins and ecological benefits / Jonathan Gershenzon [and others]
  • The herbivore's prescription: a pharm-ecological perspective on host plant use by vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores / Jennifer S. Forbey and Mark D. Hunter
  • Volatile isoprenoids and abiotic stresses / Francesca Bagnoli, Silvia Fineschi, and Francesco Loreto
  • Atmospheric change, plant secondary metabolites, and ecological interactions / Richard L. Lindroth
  • The role of plant secondary metabolites in freshwater macrophyte-herbivore interactions: limited or unexplored chemical defences? / Elisabeth M. Gross and Elisabeth S. Bakker
  • The soil microbial community and plant foliar defences against insects / Alan C. Gange, Rene Eschen, and Viviane Schroeder
  • Phytochemicals as mediators of aboveground-belowground interactions in plants / Nicole M. van Dam
  • Plant secondary metabolites and the interactions between plants and other organisms: the potential of a metabolomic approach / Susan E. Hartley [and others]
  • Integrating the effects of PSMs on vertebrate herbivores across spatial and temporal scales / Ben D. Moore and Jane L. DeGabriel
  • Plant secondary metabolite polymorphisms and the extended chemical phenotype / Glenn R. Iason [and others]
  • From genes to ecosystems: emerging concepts bridging ecological and evolutionary dynamics / Joseph K. Bailey [and others]
  • Asking the ecosystem if herbivory-inducible plant volatiles (hipvs) have defensive functions / Meredith C. Schuman and Ian T. Baldwin
  • Dynamics of plant secondary metabolites and consequences for food chains and community dynamics / Marcel Dicke, Rieta Gols, and Erik H. Poelman.