| Description | | - The only up-to-date synthesis of this rapidly expanding field
- Incorporates new insights from molecular techniques
- Specific attention is given to methodology and experimental design
- Extensive referencing is made to agricultural applications, providing a scientific rationale for insect control in crop plants
| New to this edition- Incorporates new developments in the field especially resulting from advances in molecular plant and insect biology, and a more integrative view on the field which has become possible due to recent discoveries and new insights
- 30% of the text has been completely rewritten with 25% of the literature references dating from 1999-2005
- 15% of the illustrations are new
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Readership: The book is targeted primarily at graduate students and professional researchers in the fields of agricultural entomology, plant sciences and ecology. There are also a growing number of graduate seminar courses in plant-animal interactions which this book will be ideally placed to support.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
2.
Herbivorous insects: something for everyone
3.
Plant structure: the solidity of anti-herbivore protection
4.
Plant chemistry: endless variety
5.
Plants as insect food: not the ideal
6.
Host-plant selection: how to find a host plant
7.
Host-plant selection: when to accept a plant
8.
Host-plant selection: variation is the rule
9.
The endocrine system of herbivores listens to host-plant signals
10.
Ecology: living apart together
11.
Evolution: insects and plants forever in combat
12.
Insects and flowers: mutualism par excellence
13.
Insects and plants: how to apply our knowledge
Appendix A: Further reading
Appendix B: Structural formulae
Appendix C: Methodology
Taxonomic index
Author index
Subject index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Louis M. Schoonhoven, Wageningen University, The Netherlands,
Joop J. A. van Loon, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and
Marcel Dicke, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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