There is no argument to the fact that insect herbivores cause significant losses to plant
productivity in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. To counter this continuous …

Growth–defense tradeoffs are thought to occur in plants due to resource restrictions, which
demand prioritization towards either growth or defense, depending on external and internal …

Costs of defense are central to our understanding of interactions between organisms and
their environment, and defensive phenotypes of plants have long been considered to be …

Physiological and ecological constraints play key roles in the evolution of plant growth
patterns, especially in relation to defenses against herbivores. Phenotypic and life history …

Plants face a daunting array of creatures that eat them, bore into them, and otherwise use
virtually every plant part for food, shelter, or both. But although plants cannot flee from their …

Qualitative identification of sorbed volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on biochar was
conducted by headspace thermal desorption coupled to capillary gas chromatographic …

The evolution of herbicide resistance in crop weeds presents one of the greatest challenges
to agriculture and the production of food. Herbicide resistance has been studied for more …

Plants possess a range of defenses that can be actively expressed in response to
pathogens and parasites of various scales, ranging from microscopic viruses to insect …

In this essay I summarize current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence, while
advocating for approaches that integrate community ecology with specific tests of classic …

Plants often release a blend of volatile organic compounds in response to damage by
herbivorous insects that may serve as cues to locate those herbivores by natural enemies …