Plant responses to insect herbivory: The emerging molecular analysis

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2002, Pages 299-328

  Kessler, André ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct defense; Indirect defense; Insect elicitors; Plant arthropod interaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTS; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037002402     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.53.100301.135207     Document Type: Review

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