There is always a silent war between plants and herbivorous insects that we are rarely privy
to. In this silent war, chemicals act as both weapons and messengers. Insect–plant co …

Herbivorous insects use diverse feeding strategies to obtain nutrients from their host plants.
Rather than acting as passive victims in these interactions, plants respond to herbivory with …

In the interaction between Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and the generalist herbivorous
insect Spodoptera littoralis, little is known about early events in defense signaling and their …

Glucosinolates are a group of thioglucosides in plants of the Brassicales order. Together
with their hydrolytic enzymes, the myrosinases, they constitute the 'mustard oil …

Drought events are predicted to increase due to climate change, yet consequences for plant–
insect interactions are only partially understood. Drought‐mediated interactions between …

The glucosinolate–myrosinase system found in plants of the Brassicales order is one of the
best studied plant chemical defenses. Glucosinolates and their hydrolytic enzymes …

Brassicales plants produce glucosinolates and myrosinases that generate toxic
isothiocyanates conferring broad resistance against pathogens and herbivorous insects …

Like many other plant defense compounds, glucosinolates are present constitutively in plant
tissues, but are also induced to higher levels by herbivore attack. Of the major glucosinolate …

Growth responses to competition and defence responses to the attack of consumer
organisms are two classic examples of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in plants. However, the …

The spatial distribution of plant defenses within a leaf may be critical in explaining patterns
of herbivory. The generalist lepidopteran larvae, Helicoverpa armigera (the cotton …