Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory
By Andreas Schaller
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2008-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1402081812
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781402081811
Binding: Hardcover
Despite their vulnerability as sessile organisms to adverse biotic and abiotic conditions, flowering plants dominate over much of Earth’s surface. The abilitity of plants to persist in hostile environments where they are facing an abundance of insect herbivores relies on evolved resistance systems allowing them to escape from herbivory in timeorin space, to confront herbivores directly,orto fight them indirectly by association with other species.
Until recently, plant resistance was believed to be constitutive, i.e. independent from herbivore attack. The discovery that plants respond actively to herbivore with the mobilization of specific defenses opened an exciting new field of research. This book provides an overview of the anatomical, chemical, and developmental features contributing to plant defense, with an emphasis on plant responses that are induced by woundingorherbivore attack. Written by leading experts in their fields, the book first introduces general concepts of direct and indirect defenses, followed by a focussed review of the different resistance traits, the biochemical basis of structural and chemical defense and inducibility. Finally, signal perception and transduction mechanism for the activation of plant defense responses are discussed, including chemical signaling in the communication between plants, and plants and insects.
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