Tropane alkaloids and terpenoids are widely used in the medicine and pharmaceutic
industry and evolved as chemical defenses against herbivores and pathogens in the annual …

As with many other trophic interactions, the interchange of microorganisms between plants
and their herbivorous insects is unavoidable. To test the hypothesis that the composition and …

Because most species are collections of genetically variable populations distributed to
habitats differing in their abiotic/biotic environmental factors and community composition, the …

It is thought that natural selection exerted by herbivores on plants has promoted the
evolution of plant traits that function as defence. However, such selective pressures may …

The expression of plant resistance traits against arthropod herbivores often comes with costs
to other essential plant functions such as growth and fitness. These trade‐offs are shaped by …

Plant resistance refers to the heritable ability of plants to reduce damage caused by natural
enemies, such as herbivores and pathogens, either through constitutive or induced traits like …

Theories of plant invasion based on enemy release in a new range assume that selection
exerted by specialist herbivores on defence traits should be reduced, absent, or even …

Differential expression of genes is key to mediating developmental and stress‐related plant
responses. Here, we addressed the regulation of plant metabolic responses to biotic stress …

The interaction between plants and their herbivores has spurred the evolution of multiple
traits in the resource base–the host plants–as well as the evolution and diversification of …

When colonizing new ranges, plant populations may benefit from the absence of the checks
imposed by the enemies, herbivores, and pathogens that regulated their numbers in their …