Glycine addition improves feeding performance of non-specialist herbivores on the privet, Ligustrum obtusifolium: In vivo evidence for the physiological impacts of anti-nutritive plant defense with iridoid and insect adaptation with glycine

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 595-601

  Konno, Kotaro ^a   Hirayama, Chikara ^a   Shinbo, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti nutritive plant defense; Chemical ecology; Coevolution; Essential amino acids; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; LIGUSTRUM; LIGUSTRUM OBTUSIFOLIUM; OLEACEAE; SAMIA RICINI; SATURNIIDAE;

EID: 76449103389     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2009.595     Document Type: Article

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