Chemical ecology of fruit defence: Synergistic and antagonistic interactions among amides from Piper

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1094-1106

  Whitehead, Susan R ^a   Bowers, M D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical diversity; Fruit secondary metabolites; Piper reticulatum; Plant herbivore interactions; Plant microbe interactions; Seed predation; Sibaria englemani; Synergy

Indexed keywords

PIPER RETICULATUM;

EID: 84908293917     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12250     Document Type: Article

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