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Plant Defense Warding Off Attack by Pathogens, Herbivores and Parasitic Plants

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

18.10.2010

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B/H)

24.4/16.9/1.5 cm

Gewicht

553 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-7589-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

18.10.2010

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B/H)

24.4/16.9/1.5 cm

Gewicht

553 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-7589-0

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Plant Defense

  • Preface x

    Chapter 1 Why Do Plants Need Defenses? 1

    1.1 Plants as sources of food 1

    1.2 Organisms that use plants as food 2

    1.3 Impact of infection and herbivory in natural and agricultural ecosystems 6

    1.4 Conclusions 11

    Chapter 2 What Defenses Do Plants Use? 15

    2.1 Introduction 15

    2.2 Defenses used against pathogens 15

    2.3 Defenses used against parasitic plants 37

    2.4 Defenses used against nematodes 41

    2.5 Defenses used against herbivorous insects 44

    2.6 Defenses used against vertebrate herbivores 58

    2.7 Defenses used against neighboring plants--allelopathy 64

    2.8 Conclusions 66

    Chapter 3 Sounding the Alarm: Signaling and Communication in Plant Defense 77

    3.1 Introduction 77

    3.2 Signaling in plant-pathogen interactions 77

    3.3 Signaling in plant-nematode interactions 91

    3.4 Signaling in plant-insect herbivore interactions 93

    3.5 Signaling in interactions between plants and vertebrate herbivores 110

    3.6 Signaling in interactions between plants and parasitic plants 110

    3.7 Conclusions 111

    Chapter 4 Plant Defense in the Real World: Multiple Attackers and Beneficial Interactions 125

    4.1 Introduction 125

    4.2 Dealing with multiple attackers: cross-talk between signaling pathways 126

    4.3 Can beneficial plant-microbe interactions induce resistance in plants? 143

    4.4 Conclusions 146

    Chapter 5 The Evolution of Plant Defense 153

    5.1 Introduction 153

    5.2 Hypotheses of plant defense 153

    5.3 Evolution of plant defense strategies 163

    5.4 Patterns of plant defense evolution 169

    5.5 Why do plants have induced defenses? 172

    5.6 The coevolutionary arms race 183

    5.7 Conclusions 191

    Chapter 6 Exploiting Plant Defense 201

    6.1 Introduction 201

    6.2 Using plant resistance to protect crops--breeding 201

    6.3 Using plant resistance to protect crops--induced resistance 213

    6.4 Using plant resistance to protect crops--biotechnological approaches 220

    6.5 Conclusions 224

    Recommended reading 225

    References 225

    Index 231