Responses in Plants under the Pest Infestation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 1904
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant–insect interactions; plant defense; in vitro culture; polyamines; plant stress; cryopreservation; phytochemistry; fruit ripening; postharvest physiology
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Dear Colleagues,
The interplay between plants and insects is probably one of the most challenging and fascinating examples of co-evolution and mutual adaptation. In particular, the interaction between host plants and herbivore insects has been frequently visualized as an example of an arms race in which, after a defense system evolves in plants, an answer is generated in the insects in the form of a countermeasure. Plants display a wide array of defense strategies that may vary according to the type of interaction established with the herbivore. The aim of this Special Issue is thus to collect those results describing this diversity of responses (defense reactions, primary metabolism changes, altered production of volatile compounds, changes in growth rate, etc.), and to compare the type and magnitude of this response as a function of the kind of interaction established with the insect, i.e., mode of feeding (sucking, biting, etc.), oviposition, oral or body secretions, etc. Works applying the new -omics technologies, or any other methodological advance, to this topic are also welcome.
Dr. José Luis Casas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant defense
- volatile compound
- oral secretions
- secondary metabolism
- phytochemistry
- herbivory
- egg deposition
- plant–insect
