Can plants use entomopathogens as bodyguards?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 228-235

  Elliot, Sam L ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a   Janssen, Arne ^a   Van der Geest, Leo P S ^a   Beerling, Ellen A M ^a,b   Fransen, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Res Stn Floric Glasshouse V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological control; Bodyguards; Epizootiology; Insect pathology; Mutualisms; Plant defence; Tri trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; PLANT DEFENSE; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0034127915     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00137.x     Document Type: Article

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