Plant defense : warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores and parasitic plants / Dale R. Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walters, Dale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants--Disease and pest resistance.

Plants.

Plant defenses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, IA : Blackwell Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to neighbouring plants, how plants coordinate defence responses to simultaneous multiple attacks, and the energy and resources expended by a plant in maintaining and implementing its defence systems.

Contents:

PLANT DEFENSE; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Why Do Plants Need Defenses?; Chapter 2 What Defenses Do Plants Use?; Chapter 3 Sounding the Alarm: Signaling and Communication in Plant Defense; Chapter 4 Plant Defense in the Real World: Multiple Attackers and Beneficial Interactions; Chapter 5 The Evolution of Plant Defense; Chapter 6 Exploiting Plant Defense; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612774775

9781444347739

144434773X

9781282774773

1282774778

9781444328547

1444328549

9781444328554

1444328557

OCLC:

673680402