Patterns of chemical defences in plants: An analysis of the vascular flora of Chile

Chemoecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-151

  Bustamante, Ramiro O ^a   Chacón, Paulina ^a   Niemeyer, Hermann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Alkaloid quantification; Chemical defences; Co evolution; Herbivory; Native flora of Chile; Plant apparency; Stress

Indexed keywords

CACTACEAE; POACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33747167033     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-006-0340-1     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Anderson LA, Doggett NS Ross MSF (1977) The non-specificity of Dragendorff reagent in thin layer chromatography. Planta Medica 32: 125-129
2. Benítez A (1994) Características climáticas y geológicas de Chile. Pp 19-37 in Espinoza G, Pisan P & Contreras L (eds) Perfil Ambiental de Chile. Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente. Chile-Santiago: Alfabeta Impresores
3. Berenbaum MR (1995) The chemistry of defense: theory and practice. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 92: 2-8
4. Close DC, McArthur M (2002) Rethinking the role of many plant phenolics - protection from photodamage not herbivores? Oikos 99: 166-172
5. Coley PD, JP Bryant, Chapin III FS (1985) Resource availability and plant anti-herbivore defense. Science 230: 895-899
6. Cordell GA (2003) The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology. Vol. 61. New York: Academic Press
7. di Castri F, Hajek ER (1976) Bioclimatología de Chile. Imprenta-Editorial de la Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago. 129 pp
8. th Symposium of the British Ecological Society London 1988. GB-Cambridge: University Press
9. Ehrlich PR, Raven PH (1964) Butterflies and plants: a study in plant coevolution. Evolution 18: 586-608
10. Espinoza GA, Hajek ER (1988) Riesgos climáticos: evidencias en Chile Central. Pp 41-52 in Fuentes E, Penafreta S (eds) Ecología del Paisaje en Chile Central. Estudios Sobre sus Espacios Montañosos. Chile-Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile
11. Feeny P (1976) Plant apparency and chemical defense. Rec Adv Phytochem 10: 1-41
12. Feeny P (1991) The evolution of chemical ecology: contributions from the study of herbivorous insects. Pp 1-44 in Rosenthal GA, Berenbaum MR (eds) Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites, Volume II: Evolutionary and Ecological Processes. Second edition. London: Academic Press
13. Felsenstein J (1985) Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am Nat 125: 1-15
14. Frohne D, Jensen U (1998) Systematik des Pflanzenreichs: unter besonderer Berücksichtigung chemischer nerkmale und pflanzicher Droge. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesselschaft mbH. Stuttgart, Germany
15. Fuentes E, Etchegaray J (1983) Defoliation patterns in matorral ecosystems. Pp 525-542 in Krug F, Mitchell D, Jarvis J (eds) Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems: the Role of Nutrients. Berlin: Springer-Verlag
16. Gajardo R (1994) La Vegetación Nativa de Chile. Clasificación y Biogeografía. Chile-Santiago: Editorial Universitaria
17. Gartlan JS, McKey DB, Waterman PG, Mbi CN, Struhsaker TT (1980) A comparative study of the phytochemistry of two African rain forests. Biochem Syst Ecol 8: 401-422
18. Hagerman AE, Butler LG (1978) Protein precipitation method for the quantitative determination of tannins. J Agric Food Chem 26: 809-812
19. Hagerman AE, Butler LG (1991) Tannins and Lignins. Pp. 355-388 in G.A. Rosenthal GA, Berenbaum MR (eds) Herbivores. Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites, Volume I, The Chemical Participants. Second edition. London: Academic Press
20. 16 (4→8) catechin (procyanidin). J Agric Food Chem 46: 2590-2595
21. Hartley SE, Jones CG (1997) Plant chemistry and herhivory or why the world is green. Pp. 284-324 in Crawley MJ (ed) Plant Ecology. Second Edition. Backwell Science Ltd: Oxford, England
22. Harvey PH, Pagel MD (1991) The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. New York: Oxford University Press
23. Hoy CW, Head GP, Hall FR (1998) Spatial heterogeneity and insect adaptation to toxins. Ann Rev Entomol 43: 571-594
24. Kalin Arroyo M, Cavieres L, Marticorena C, Muñoz-Schick M (1995) Convergence of the mediterranean floras in central Chile and California: insights from comparative biogeography. Pp. 47-88 in Kalin Arroyo M, Zedler PH, Fox MD (eds) Ecology and Biogeography of Mediterranean Ecosystems in Chile, California, and Australia. New York, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
25. Kennedy GG, Barbour JD (1992) Resistance variation in natural and managed systems. Pp 13-41 in Fritz RS, Simms EL (eds) Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens. Ecology, Evolution and Genetics. Chicago and London: The University Chicago Press
26. Levin DA (1976) Alkaloid-bearing plants: an ecogeographical perspective. Am Nat 110: 261-284
27. McKey D (1979) The distribution of secondary compounds within plants. Pp. 55-133 in Rosenthal GA and DH Janzen (eds) Herbivores: Their Interactions With Secondary Plant Metabolites. New York: Academic Press
28. Mole S, Waterman PG (1987a) A critical analysis of techniques for measuring tannins in ecological studies. I. Techniques for chemically defining tannins. Oecologia 72: 137-147
29. Mole S, Waterman PG (1987b) A critical analysis of techniques for measuring tannins in ecological studies. II. Techniques for biochemically defining tannins. Oecologia 72: 148-156
30. Ohnmeiss TE, Baldwin IT (2000) Optimal defense theory predicts the ontogeny of an induced nicotine defense. Ecology 81: 1765-1783
31. Price PW (1997) Insect ecology. Third Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc
32. Raffauf RF (1996) Plant Alkaloids: A Guide to Their Discovery and Distribution. Binghampton: Products Press
33. Read AF, Harvey PH (1989) Life history differences among the eutherian radiation. J Zool 219: 329-353
34. Rhoades DF, Cates RG (1976) Toward a general theory of plant antiherbivore chemistry. Rec Adv Phytochem 10: 168-213
35. Roff DA (1992) The Evolution of Life Histories. Theory and Analysis. New York: Chapman & Hall
36. Rosenthal GA, Berenbaum MR (1991) Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites, Volume II: Evolutionary and Ecological Processes. Second edition. London: Academic Press
37. Silvertown J, Dodd M (1996) Comparing plants and connecting traits. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London 351: 1233-1239
38. Sokal RR, Rohlf FL (1995) Biometry. Third Edition. New York: Freeman, W.H. & Company
39. Stamp N (2003) Out of the quagmire of plants defense hypotheses. Quart Rev Biol 78: 23-55
40. Stamp N (2004) Can the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis be tested rigorously? Oikos 107: 439-448
41. Sthal E (1965) Thin Layer Chromatography: A Laboratory Handbook. New York: Academic Press
42. Wagner H, Bladt S, Zgainski EM (1984) Plant Drug Analysis. New York: Springer-Verlag
43. Zangerl AR, Bazzaz FA (1992) Theory and pattern in plant defense allocation. Pp 363-391 in Fritz RS, Simms EL (eds) Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens. Ecology, Evolution and Genetics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
44. Zomlefer WB (1994) Guide to Flowering Plant Families. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press