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Small but strong: herbivory by sap-feeding insect reduces plant progeny growth but enhances direct and indirect anti-herbivore defenses
The transmission of resistance traits to herbivores across subsequent generations is an important strategy employed by plants to enhance their...
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Leaf vibrations produced by chewing provide a consistent acoustic target for plant recognition of herbivores
Plant defenses that respond to the threat of herbivory require accurate sensing of the presence of herbivores. Herbivory cues include mechanical...
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Plant Phenolics and Their Versatile Promising Role in the Management of Nematode Stress
Biotic stress which is caused by various insects, viruses, fungi, bacteria, etc., and abiotic stress which is caused by various stressors for...
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Symbiotic Harmony Between Insects and Fungi: A Mutualistic Approach
Microbes are known to interact with a variety of organisms belonging to different classes, genera, or species through their own diverse and specific...
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Rice Defense Responses Orchestrated by Oral Bacteria of the Rice Striped Stem Borer, Chilo suppressalis
Plant defenses in response to chewing insects are generally regulated by jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathway, whereas salicylic acid (SA) signaling...
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Direct and Indirect Defence Against Insects
To obtain nutrients from their hosts, insects feeding on plants use a variety of approaches. Instead of being submissive victims during such...
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Efficacy and emergence of parasitic wasps that attack herbivorous insects on maize and its relatives in their region of origin
Maize ( Zea mays subsp. mays ), an important cereal crop worldwide, was domesticated directly from the annual teosinte ( Zea mays subsp. parviglumis ),...
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The Fossil Record of Long-Proboscid Nectarivorous Insects
AbstractThe paper overviews the fossil record of insects with long mouthparts and rostra adapted to feeding on floral nectar and pollination drops of...
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Role of Phytohormones in Plant Defence Against Insects: Signalling and Crosstalk
Plants possess their own defence mechanisms to combat infestations of herbivorous insects and pathogens. It has few preexisting defence mechanisms,...
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Chemical Pest Defense by the Innate Response to Silver Vine and Catnip Plants in the Domestic Cat
Cats show a characteristic response to catnip (Nepeta cataria) and silver vine (Actinidia polygama), which comprises licking, chewing, rubbing, and...
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Dynamics of the Composition and Density of Insects on Aboveground Organs of Alfalfa in the Forest-Steppe of Samara Province
AbstractThis paper presents analysis of the effects of the alfalfa crop age, sowing method, phenological development phases, and green mass mowing on...
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Adaptive phenotypic plasticity of mandibles with respect to host plants
Polyphagous butterflies, i.e., those that feed on multiple host plants, need to evolve adaptations against the defenses of many plants. Studies have...
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Response and Resistance Mechanisms of Tea Plants to Biotic Stress
Tea is one of the most popular nonalcoholic drinks consumed worldwide and is made from the tea plant leaves. The majority of tea plants grow in...
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Defensive tolerance to parasitism is correlated with sexual selection in swallows
Parasite-mediated sexual selection has been the topic of extensive research and enthusiastic debate for more than three decades. Here, we suggest...
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Changes in herbivory patterns and insect herbivore assemblages associated to canopy of Quercus laurina: importance of oak species diversity and foliar chemical defense
Key messageOak community diversity increase diversity of canopy insect herbivores and herbivory rates in Q. laurina through changes in foliar...
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Exploring the potential of root-associated bacteria to control an outbreak weed
AimsThe spread of invasive weeds threatens biodiversity and stability of ecosystems. Jacobaea vulgaris is an invasive weed in some countries and an...
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Different responses of herbivore abundance to plant genotypic diversity depending on herbivore host specificity
Key messageThe response of herbivore abundance to birch genotypic diversity varies depending on the host specificity of the herbivores. Specialist,...
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Temporal co-occurrence of leaf herbivory by chewers, leaf miners and gall-formers on a tropical tree: Do leaf traits matter?
The structure of the community of insect herbivores in a plant can be determined by plant traits and also by interactions with consumers. We studied...
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Evidence of Arthropod–Plant Interactions Through the Permian in Brazil
Arthropods and land plants are the major macroscopic groups on the planet, being the plant–herbivore food web, an important component of terrestrial...
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Enhancing the resilience of transgenic cotton for insect resistance
BackgroundThe efficacy of Bt crystal proteins has been compromised due to their extensive utilization in the field. The second-generation Bt ...
