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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816859103321

Autore

Walters Dale

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786612774775

9781444347739

144434773X

9781282774773

1282774778

9781444328547

1444328549

9781444328554

1444328557

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

632

Soggetti

Plants - Disease and pest resistance

Plant defenses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.