Root damage and aboveground herbivory change concentration and composition of pyrrolizidine alkaloids of Senecio jacobaea

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-260

  Hol, W H Gera ^a,b,c   Macel, Mirka ^a,d   Van Veen, Johannes A ^a,b   Van Der Meijden, Ed ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aboveground and belowground interactions; Constitutive defence; Erucifoline; Induction; Mamestra brassicae

Indexed keywords

MAMESTRA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE; SENECIO; SENECIO JACOBAEA;

EID: 3142755854     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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