Attracting friends to feast on foes: Engineering terpene emission to make crop plants more attractive to herbivore enemies

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-176

  Degenhardt, Jörg ^a   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a   Kessler, André ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERPENE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ARTHROPOD; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARNIVORE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CROP PROTECTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; INSECT; MITE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT METABOLISM; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0038404729     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(03)00025-9     Document Type: Review

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