Constitutive plant toxins and their role in defense against herbivores and pathogens

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 300-307

  Wittstock, Ute ^a   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FUNGI; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECTS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036017856     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(02)00264-9     Document Type: Review

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