Ever since the first plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) were isolated and identified,
questions about their ecological functions and diversity have been raised. Recent advances …

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 …

Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory |
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Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

▪ Abstract Contributions from the field of population biology hold promise for understanding
and managing invasiveness; invasive species also offer excellent opportunities to study …

" Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10% of
plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural …

Insect herbivores are hypothesized to be major factors affecting the ecology and evolution of
plants. We tested this prediction by suppressing insects in replicated field populations of a …

ABSTRACT Several hypotheses, mainly Optimal Defense (OD), Carbon: Nutrient Balance
(CNB), Growth Rate (GR), and Growth-Differentiation Balance (GDB), have individually …

Although secondary metabolites are recognized as fundamental to the defence of plants
against insect and mammalian herbivores, their relative importance compared to other …

Inducible defenses, which provide enhanced resistance after initial attack, are nearly
universal in plants. This defense signaling cascade is mediated by the synthesis, movement …