Exploring Lower Limits of Plant Elemental Defense by Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, and Zinc

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 666-674

  Cheruiyot, Dorothy J ^a   Boyd, Robert S ^a   Moar, William J ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elemental defense; Heavy metal; Herbivory; Hyperaccumulator; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Spodoptera exigua

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ARTIFICIAL DIET; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COBALT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; GENERALIST; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; HYPERACCUMULATION; MOTH; NEONATE; NICKEL; PATHOGEN; PLANT DEFENSE; ZINC;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; LARVA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPODOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; LARVA; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SPODOPTERA;

LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

EID: 84877110759     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-013-0279-y     Document Type: Article

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