Insects and plant defence dynamics /
editor, T.N. Ananthakrishnan.
- Enfield, (NH) : Science Publishers, c2001.
- xii, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Phytochemical defence profiles ininsect-plant interactions -- TN. Ananthakrishnan -- Chapter 2 The role of essential nutrients and minerals in insect -- resistance in crop plants -- N.K. Fageria and Mark Scriber -- Chapter 3 Synthesis of chemical defenses in maize silks against -- corn earworm and their inheritance in the flavonoid -- pathway -- N.W. Widstrom, M.E. Snook and B.Z Guo -- Chapter 4 Semiochemistry of Crucifer and their Herbivores -- Alireza Aliabadi and Douglas W. Whitman -- Chapter 5 Tetranortriterpenoids and Quassinoids: Constitutive -- chemical defenses of the Rutales -- T.R. Govindachari, G. Suresh and Geetha Gopalakrishnan -- Chapter 6 Role of plant surface in resistance to insect herbivores -- A. John Peter and Thomas G. Shanower -- Chapter 7 Host plant resistance to insects: Measurement, -- mechanisms and Insect-plant environment interactions -- H.C Sharma, B.U. Singh and Rodomiro-Ortiz -- Chapter 8 Defensive tactics of caterpillars against predators and -- parasitoids -- Brent A. Salazar and Douglas W. Whitman -- Chapter 9 Sluggish movement of conspicuousinsects as a defense -- mechanism against motion-oriented predators -- John D. Hatle and Douglas W. Whitman -- Chapter 10 Molecular approaches to host plant defences against -- insects -- TN. Aanthakrishnan -- Chapter 11 Chemical Ecology: The Future -- TN. Ananthakrishnan -- Index.