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Increased availability of extrafloral nectar reduces herbivory in Lima bean plants (Phaseolus lunatus., Fabaceae)
Christian Kost,Martin Heil +1 more
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Ants, wasps and flies were significantly more abundant on treated tendrils than on untreated controls already after 1 week, suggesting that also some of the flying visitors have played a role as putative defenders of Lima beans.About:
This article is published in Basic and Applied Ecology.The article was published on 2005-06-01. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lima beans & Nectar source.read more
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Mechanisms of plant defense against insect herbivores
Abdul Rashid War,Michael Gabriel Paulraj,Tariq Ahmad,Abdul A. Buhroo,Barkat Hussain,Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu,Hari C. Sharma +6 more
TL;DR: By understanding the mechanisms of induced resistance, this work can predict the herbivores that are likely to be affected by induced responses and could be exploited as an important tool for the pest management to minimize the amounts of insecticides used for pest control.
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Plant Defense Against Herbivores: Chemical Aspects
Axel Mithöfer,Wilhelm Boland +1 more
TL;DR: Recognizing the herbivore challenge and precise timing of plant activities as well as the adaptive modulation of the plants' metabolism is important so that metabolites and energy may be efficiently allocated to defensive activities.
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Volatile Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era
TL;DR: This article showed that plants may "eavesdrop" on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by herbivore-attacked neighbors to activate defenses before being attacked themselves.
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Indirect defence via tritrophic interactions.
TL;DR: Indirect defences are increasingly being discussed as an environmentally-friendly crop protection strategy, but much more knowledge on their fitness effects under certain environmental conditions is required before the authors can understand their ecological and evolutionary relevance, and before tritrophic interactions can serve as a reliable tool in agronomy.
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Within-plant signaling by volatiles leads to induction and priming of an indirect plant defense in nature.
TL;DR: Herbivore-induced VOCs elicit a defensive response in undamaged plants (or parts of plants) under natural conditions, and they function as external signal for within-plant communication, thus serving also a physiological role in the systemic response of a plant to local damage.
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Induced Responses to Herbivory
Richard Karban,Ian T. Baldwin +1 more
TL;DR: This comprehensive evaluation and synthesis of a rapidly-developing field provides state-of-the-discipline reviews, and highlights areas of research which might be productive, should appeal to a wide variety of theoretical and applied researchers.
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Interactions Among Three Trophic Levels: Influence of Plants on Interactions Between Insect Herbivores and Natural Enemies
TL;DR: It is argued that theory on insect-plant interactions cannot progress realistically without consideration of the third trophic level, and plants have many effects, direct and indirect, positive and negative, not only on herbivore but also on the enemies of herbivores.
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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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Mosquito sugar feeding and reproductive energetics.
TL;DR: The rules by which females make food-choice decisions have been inadequately explored, and there still lack convincing evidence that sugar availability in nature varies sufficiently to affect mosquito populations.