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

• Autore: Walters Dale
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Ames, IA, : Blackwell Pub., [2011]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 632
• Soggetto topico: Plants - Disease and pest resistance; Plant defenses
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plant defense
• ISBN: 9781444328547; 1-4443-4773-X; 1-282-77477-8; 9786612774775; 1-4443-2854-9; 1-4443-2855-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910140802003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II