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After more than 30 years of research, several aspects of plant resistance to phytophagous insects still have to be proved. They include: appearance, predictibility and availability of chemical compounds, synchronisation and phenological protection, intraspecific variation in plant secondary chemistry and the pattern of allocation of defensive substances and nutrients for insect in tissues, and resource availability (Feeny, 1990).
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Feeny, P. (1990). Theory of plant chemical defense: a brief historical survey. Symp. Biol. Hung. 39: 163–175.
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Scutareanu, P., Lingeman, R. (1992). Natural defence of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) against the defoliating insect Euproctis chrysorrhoea . In: Menken, S.B.J., Visser, J.H., Harrewijn, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships. Series Entomologica, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1654-1_22
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