The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a
highly polyphagous plant pest that can severely impact yields of several agricultural crops …

The tolerance of plants to herbivory reflects the degree to which a plant can regrow and
reproduce after damage from herbivores. Autoecological factors, as well as the influence of …

Despite intensive research during the past decade on the effects of alien species, invasion
science still lacks the capacity to accurately predict the impacts of those species and …

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 …

To determine if damage to foliage by biotic agents, including arthropods, fungi, bacteria and
viral pathogens, universally downregulates the expression of genes involved in …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

The current concepts of host plant resistance to insects are reviewed in this book. The broad
coverage includes crop plant and insect diversity, mechanisms of insect-plant interactions …

Natural ecosystems provide a variety of services on which humans, and other organisms,
depend for survival and well-being. These ecosystem services can be categorized as …

JP Rosenthal and PM Kotanen esistance of terrestrial R plants to attack by herbivores may
take two basic orms. Plants may avoid damage via defence or escape in time and space, or …

We know a great deal about the plastic responses of plant phenotypes to the abiotic and
biotic environment, but very little about the consequences of phenotypic plasticity for plant …