Insect-Plant Interactions and Induced Plant Defence - No. 223

INSECT-PLANT INTERACTIONS AND INDUCED PLANT DEFENCE......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Participants......Page 9
Chairman’s introduction......Page 11
Evolutionary aspects of plant-carnivore interactions......Page 13
Attraction of parasitic wasps by caterpillar-damaged plants......Page 31
General discussion I......Page 49
Specificity of herbivore-induced plant defences......Page 53
Aphids, predators and parasitoids......Page 70
Functional interactions in the use of direct and indirect defences in native Nicotiunu plants......Page 84
Plant production of volatile semiochemicals in response to insect-derived elicitors......Page 105
Induced biosynthesis of insect semiochemicals in plants......Page 120
Diversity and variability of terpenoid defences in conifers: molecular genetics, biochemistry and evolution of the terpene synthase gene family in grand fir (Abies grandis)......Page 142
The hydroxamic acid pathway......Page 160
General discussion II......Page 170
Cross-talk between the signal pathways for pathogen-induced systemic acquired resistance and grazing-induced insect resistance......Page 176
The role of phytoalexins in plant protection......Page 185
Future use of plant signals in agricultural and industrial crops......Page 233
Genetics and evolution of insect resistance in Arabidopsis......Page 249
Exploiting insect responses in identifying plant signals......Page 263
Final discussion......Page 276
Index of contributors......Page 280
Subject index......Page 282