Chemically Mediated Interactions Between Plants and Other Organisms

Name: Chemically Mediated Interactions Between Plants and Other Organisms
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ISBN: 9780306420061

ISBN-10: 0306420066

ISBN-13: 9780306420061

Edition: 1985

Authors: Gillian A. Cooper-Driver, Tony Swain, Eric E. Conn

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Chemical warfare between plants and their herbivores and pathogens was first brought to our attention by the publication 25 years ago of the paper by Fraenkel in Science. There, he pointed out that most plants have similar nutritional characteristics so that the selection of plants by insect herbivores must depend on the relative toxicity of secondary compounds. This led, rather gradually, to a host of papers on plant-herbivore interactions. More or less at the same time, insect physiologists and ecologists were starting to realise the importance of chemical communi cation systems in determining sexual and other characteristics of insect behaviour. Nine years ago the Phytochemical Society…

Book details

List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Basic Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English