Plant Defense against Herbivorous Pests

Plant Defense against Herbivorous Pests: Exploiting Resistance and ...

Plant traits that confer herbivore resistance typically prevent or reduce herbivore damage through expression of traits that deter pests from settling, ...

Mechanisms of plant defense against insect herbivores - PMC

Plants respond to herbivory through various morphological, biochemicals, and molecular mechanisms to counter/offset the effects of herbivore attack.

Plant Resistance against Herbivory | Learn Science at Scitable

Once herbivores find and access a plant, structural defenses can discourage consumption. These structures include spinescence, trichomes, thick leaves, and ...

Plant defense against herbivory - Wikipedia

To prevent overconsumption by large herbivores, plants alter their appearance by changing their size or quality, reducing the rate at which they are consumed.

Plant defense against insect herbivores - PubMed

Some defenses are constitutive while others are induced, although the insecticidal defense compound or protein classes are often similar. Insect ...

Plant defence against herbivory and insect adaptations | Oxford

Insects respond to plant defensive traits by up- and/or down-regulation of a number of genes encoding various enzymes. Callosobruchus maculatus ...

Plant Defenses - Learn Genetics (Utah)

Plant defenses. From left to right: thorns on a rose, ants that kill herbivores feeding on plant nectar, tea leaves that contain caffeine (toxic to insects) and ...

Plant Defense against Insect Herbivores - MDPI

Phenolics serve as defense compounds by repelling feeding herbivores and inhibiting enzymes, by attracting pollinators and fruit dispersers, by absorbing ...

Mechanisms of plant defense against insect herbivores

The biochemical mechanisms of defense against the herbivores are wide-ranging, highly dynamic, and are mediated both by direct and indirect ...

Plant defense resistance in natural enemies of a specialist insect ...

Certain adapted insect herbivores utilize plant toxins for self-defense against their own enemies. These adaptations structure ecosystems ...

Plant resistance towards insect herbivores: a dynamic interaction

Plants also respond to insect attack by producing volatiles, which can be used to deter herbivores, to communicate between parts of the plant, ...

Defense strategies and associated phytohormonal regulation in ...

Plant phytohormone signaling networks, particularly JA and SA signaling pathways play crucial roles in optimizing plant defenses against insect herbivores ( ...

Plant defense strategies against attack by multiple herbivores

Glossary ; Direct defense: plant traits that increase the resistance of plants to insect herbivores resulting in reduction of plant fitness loss by herbivory.

Mechanisms and ecological consequences of plant defence ...

Also, dead insects entrapped on sticky plants were shown to attract predatory insects such that overall herbivore damage decreased and fruit production ...

Differentiated plant defense strategies: Herbivore community ...

This design allowed us to analyze simultaneous defensive responses of individual trees to mammal and insect herbivores. We predicted that ...

Plant Defense Chemicals against Insect Pests - MDPI

These include structural defenses such as thorns and waxy cuticles as well as protein-based and chemical defenses [2,3,4]. Plant defense chemicals consist of ...

Overview of Plant Defenses - American Phytopathological Society

Understanding how plants defend themselves from pathogens and herbivores is essential in order to protect our food supply and develop highly ...

Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense

Specialist insect herbivores, as compared with generalists, will have distinct and predictable interactions with their host plants.

Defense Mechanisms of Plants to Insect Pests - Juniper Publishers

Plant defense against insect herbivores is just one of multiple layers of interactions. Together with plants, these players are involved in ...

Herbivore exploits orally secreted bacteria to suppress plant defenses

The role of herbivore-associated microbes in modifying plant defenses has received scant attention. The Colorado potato beetle secretes symbiotic bacteria ...

Acylsugar

Acylsugars are a group of plant-derived protective secondary metabolites that lack nitrogen. They typically consist of aliphatic acyl groups of low to medium chain lengths esterified to the hydroxyl groups of glucose or sucrose.