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Molecular Aspects of Insect-Plant Associations

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Lena B. Brattsten

    1. Agricultural Products Department, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc., Wilmington, USA

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  2. Sami Ahmad

    1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Perception of Plant Allelochemicals That Inhibit Feeding

    • James L. Frazier
    Pages 1-42

  3. Allelochemicals and Alimentary Ecology: Heterosis in a Hybrid Zone?

    • J. Mark Scriber
    Pages 43-71

  4. Enzymes Involved in the Metabolism of Plant Allelochemicals

    • S. Ahmad, L. B. Brattsten, C. A. Mullin, S. J. Yu
    Pages 73-151

  5. Consequences of Induction of Foreign Compound-Metabolizing Enzymes in Insects

    • S. J. Yu
    Pages 153-174

  6. Adaptive Divergence of Chewing and Sucking Arthropods to Plant Allelochemicals

    • Christopher A. Mullin
    Pages 175-209

  7. Fate of Ingested Plant Allelochemicals in Herbivorous Insects

    • L. B. Brattsten
    Pages 211-255

  8. Target Site Insensitivity in Insect-Plant Interactions

    • May R. Berenbaum
    Pages 257-272

  9. Behavioral Adaptations in Insects to Plant Allelochemicals

    • Douglas W. Tallamy
    Pages 273-300

  10. Devising Pest Management Tactics Based on Plant Defense Mechanisms, Theoretical and Practical Considerations

    • Kenneth F. Raffa
    Pages 301-327

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 329-346
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About this book

Thanks to the meticulous and enthusiastic work of insect collectors and taxonomists over the past hundred years and more, we have today a large amount of information on the feeding habits and life styles of sev­ eral hundred thousands of insect species. Insects that feed on plants during at least one of their life stages constitute about half of the three-quarters of a million described species. Their numbers both in terms of species and individuals together with their small but macroscopic sizes makes the insect-plant biological interface perhaps the most conspicuous, diverse and largest assemblage of intimate interspecies interactions in existence. It is also perhaps the most important biological interface be­ cause of the plants' role as primary producers upon which all other forms of earthly life depend, thereby bringing herbivorous insects occasionally into direct competition with human food and fiber production. Early enthusiasm revealed many remarkable specializations and associ­ ations between insects and plants, and occasionally assigned chemical me­ diators for them. However, the modern practices of large scale crop pro­ tection by synthetic pesticides and their attendant problems, particularly with resistance in "pests" and destruction of natural enemies, have been in large measure responsible for drawing our attention to the mechanisms whereby plants control insect populations and insects adapt to the plants' defenses. These practices have also brought home the importance of chemical mediators in practically all aspects of insect activities and, in parti­ cular, the importance of plant allelochemicals in maintaining and balan­ cing insect-plant associations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Agricultural Products Department, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc., Wilmington, USA

    Lena B. Brattsten

  • Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    Sami Ahmad

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Molecular Aspects of Insect-Plant Associations

  • Editors: Lena B. Brattsten, Sami Ahmad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1865-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9040-7Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1865-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 358

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Evolutionary Biology

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma

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