Plant defense strategies against attack by multiple herbivores

Author(s):  
Maite Fernández de Bobadilla ◽  
Alessia Vitiello ◽  
Matthias Erb ◽  
Erik H. Poelman
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 841-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Kaplan ◽  
Rayko Halitschke ◽  
Andre Kessler ◽  
Brian J. Rehill ◽  
Sandra Sardanelli ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Medha L. Upasani ◽  
Bhakti M. Limaye ◽  
Gayatri S. Gurjar ◽  
Sunitha M. Kasibhatla ◽  
Rajendra R. Joshi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Vinícius Dantas ◽  
Juli Pausas

Large mammal herbivores are important drivers of plant evolution and vegetation patterns, but whether current plant traits and ecosystem geography reflect the historical distribution of extinct megafauna is unknown. We address this question for Southern America (Neotropical biogeographic realm) by relating plant defense trait information at the ecoregion scale to climate, soil, fire, and the historical distribution of megafauna. Here we show that megafauna history explains substantial trait variability and detected three distinct regions (called “Antiherbiomes”) characterized by convergent plant defense strategies, environmental and megafauna patterns. We also identified ecoregions that experienced biome shift, from grassy- to forest- dominated, following the Pleistocene megafauna extinction. These results suggest that extinct megafauna left a significant imprint in the current plant trait and ecosystems biogeography of Southern America.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag A. Agrawal

Biologia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mária Čarná ◽  
Vladimír Repka ◽  
Petr Skůpa ◽  
Ernest Šturdík

AbstractPlant hormones operate in a very complex network where they regulate and control different vital mechanisms. They coordinate growth, development and defense via signaling involving different interactions of molecules. Activation of molecules responsible for regulation of plant immunity is mainly provided by salicylic and jasmonic acid signaling pathways. Similar to the signaling of these defense-associated plant hormones, auxin can also affect resistance to different pathogen groups and disease is manifested indirectly through the effects on growth. The various ways in which auxin regulate growth and plant development and might be closely connected to plant defense, are discussed in this review.


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