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Maarten A. Posthumus
Researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre
Publications - 64
Citations - 7289
Maarten A. Posthumus is an academic researcher from Wageningen University and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tetranychus urticae & Pieris brassicae. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 64 publications receiving 6934 citations. Previous affiliations of Maarten A. Posthumus include University of Amsterdam.
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Plant strategies of manipulating predator- prey interactions through allelochemicals: prospects for application in pest control
TL;DR: Crop protection in the future should include tactics whereby man becomes an ally to plants in their strategies to manipulate predator-prey interactions through allelochemicals, which makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.
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beta-Glucosidase: an elicitor of herbivore-induced plant odor that attracts host-searching parasitic wasps
TL;DR: Findings show that beta-glucosidase is a P. brassicae-secreted elicitor of the defense response of cabbage plants to herbivore injury, inducing the emission of volatiles that are used by parasitoids of the herbivores to locate their victims.
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Volatile herbivore-induced terpenoids in plant-mite interactions: Variation caused by biotic and abiotic factors.
TL;DR: The role of terpenoids in the induced indirect defense of plants against herbivorous mites is reviewed and it is shown thatPredatory mites cope with this variation of HIS by innate recognition as well as temporary specialization to a certain HIS via learning.
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Jasmonic Acid and Herbivory Differentially Induce Carnivore-Attracting Plant Volatiles in Lima Bean Plants
TL;DR: Chemical as well as behavioral analyses demonstrate that spider mite damage and JA treatment have similar, although not identical, effects on volatile induction in Lima bean plants.
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Herbivore-induced volatile production by Arabidopsis thaliana leads to attraction of the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula: chemical, behavioral, and gene-expression analysis.
TL;DR: It is shown that adult females of Cotesia rubecula, a specialist parasitic wasp of Pieris rapae caterpillars, are attracted to P. rapae-infested Arabidopsis plants, and genes from major biosynthetic pathways involved in volatile production are induced by caterpillar feeding.