Latex: A model for understanding mechanisms, ecology, and evolution of plant defense against herbivory

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 311-331

  Agrawal, Anurag A ^a   Konno, Kotaro ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Coevolution; Insect behavior; Laticifer; Plant resistance; Plant insect interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HERBIVORY; HERITABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; METABOLISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PROTEIN;

HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 77949864099     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120307     Document Type: Article

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