Evolution of Plant Defence to Herbivores
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 18621
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Interests: evolutionary ecology
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Dear Colleagues,
The evolution of plant defence to herbivores is a paradigmatic field of ecology, encompassing a range from genomic changes to ecological communities, seeking to understand the vast array of plant adaptations, from cellular to organismic levels, that originated from/are maintained by interaction with diverse herbivores under varying environmental conditions. The diversity of resistance traits, notably chemical traits, deployed by different plant organs in response to herbivory, has stimulated the scientific search for general patterns, if any, in the conditions and/or factors that promote/limit their evolutionary outcomes. Several hypotheses for the evolution of plant defences to herbivores have been proposed in recent decades, with few maintaining their explanatory power. Advances in the study of specialized (secondary) defence chemicals, and genetic variation of these traits (even at the genomic level), in model and non-model plants have led to the refinement of these hypotheses and the advancement of new ones. This issue of Plants is intended as a forum to present new ideas, and/or empirical and experimental evidence on the evolution of plant defence to herbivores, which will call for new avenues of synthetic research in this topic in the years to come.
Dr. Juan Núñez-Farfán
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Phenotypic diversity of plant defence traits
- Theories of plant defence
- Environmental circumstances and the evolution of plant defence
- Genomics of plant defence traits
- Plant defence and global change
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