Plant hormones have pivotal roles in the regulation of plant growth, development, and
reproduction. Additionally, they emerged as cellular signal molecules with key functions in …

Agricultural intensification and greater production of Brassica vegetable and oilseed crops
over the past two decades have increased the pest status of the diamondback moth (DBM) …

There has been a long-standing hypothesis that specialist and generalist insects interact
with plants in distinct ways. Although many tests exist, they typically compare only one …

Every plant is a member of a complex insect community that consists of tens to hundreds of
species that belong to different trophic levels. The dynamics of this community are critically …

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 …

The attack of a plant by herbivorous arthropods can result in considerable changes in the
plant's chemical phenotype. The emission of so-called herbivore-induced plant volatiles …

Highlights•The magnitude of variation in plant traits, as well as the combined influence of
key plant and consumer traits determines plant diversity effects on associated insects.• …

Plants live in complex environments in which they intimately interact with a broad range of
other organisms. Besides the plethora of deleterious interactions with pathogens and insect …

Background Plants are hotbeds for parasites such as arthropod herbivores, which acquire
nutrients and energy from their hosts in order to grow and reproduce. Hence plants are …

In nature, plants have to cope with a wide range of stress conditions that often occur
simultaneously or in sequence. To investigate how plants cope with multi‐stress conditions …