Ebook Insect Plant Biology

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Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, Ebook Insect Plant Biology consuming about 10% of plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural systems, despite sophisticated control measures. Plants are generally remarkably well-protected against insect attack, with the result that most insects are highly specialized feeders.
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 : Louis M. Schoonhoven, Joop J. A. van Loon and Marcel Dicke
 : Oxford University Press; 01 December 2005
 : 440 pages
 : English
 : January 1, 1998
 : ISBN-10: 0198525958
 : ISBN-13: 9780198525950
Insect Plant Biology reveals very complex and mutualistic antagonistic interactions that have evolved between plants and insects. The author discusses the operation of this mechanism at the molecular and organismal level and explicitly places it in the context of ecological interactions and evolutionary processes. This multidisciplinary approach will appeal to students in the fields of biology, agricultural entomology, ecology, and anyone interested in the principles underlying the relationship between the two groups of the largest organisms on earth: plants and insects.


Louis Schoonhoven : PhD Groningen State University (1962) Staff scientist Wageningen University (1962) Postdocs/sabbaticals Philadelphia, Princeton, London. Professor of Animal Physiology (Wageningen) (1972-1985) Dean of Faculty of Agriculture (1982-1985) Professor of Entomology (Wageningen) (1985-1991). Elected member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982) Teaching courses in Scandinavia, China, Brazil, Kenya. Editor-in-Chief Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (1972-2002). 

Joop van Loon : PhD Wageningen University (1988). Research scientist, Wageningen University (1981) Research scientist, Foundation for Agricultural Plant Breeding (SVP-DLO), Wageningen (1986). Assistant professor, Wageningen University (1989). Associate professor, Wageningen University (- present). Co-editor Entomologia Experimentalis et applicata (2000) Visiting professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2004).


Marcel Dicke : PhD Wageningen University (1988). Assistant Professor, Wageningen University (1985). Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen Professor of Insect-Plant Interactions, especially Tritrophic Interactions (1997). Professor of Entomology and head of Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University (2003). Member of editorial boards of Journal of Chemical Ecology (1999), Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (1995), Journal of Ethology (1999-present), Ecological Entomology (2001), Insect Science (2005). Netherlands Zoology Prize (Netherlands Society for Zoology 1992), Belgacom Prize (Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, 1996), VICI grant (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO, 2002).






1. Introduction
2. Herbivorous insects: something for everyone
3. Plant structure: the solidity of anti-herbivore protection
4. Plant chemistry: endless variety
5. Plants as insect food: not the ideal
6. Host-plant selection: how to find a host plant
7. Host-plant selection: when to accept a plant
8. Host-plant selection: variation is the rule
9. The endocrine system of herbivores listens to host-plant signals
10. Ecology: living apart together
11. Evolution: insects and plants forever in combat
12. Insects and flowers: mutualism par excellence
13. Insects and plants: how to apply our knowledge
Appendix A: Further reading
Appendix B: Structural formulae
Appendix C: Methodology
Taxonomic index
Author index
Subject index
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