PLoS ONE, 2020 Vegetative parts of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) are important forage for many boreal forest mammal, bird and insect species. Plant palatability to insects is affected by concentration of nutrients and defense compounds in plants.
Marcel Schrijvers-Gonlag +2 more
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Climate Change Ecology, 2021 Because short growing seasons severely constrain plant growth and biomass accumulation in high elevation habitats, herbivory can profoundly impact both individual fitness and community dynamics in these settings.
Meera Lee Sethi +1 more
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Global patterns of insect herbivory in gap and understorey environments, and their implications for woody plant carbon storage [PDF]
, 2018 Insect herbivory is thought to favour carbon allocation to storage in juveniles of shade-tolerant trees. This argument assumes that insect herbivory in the understorey is sufficiently intense as to select for storage; however, understoreys might be less ...
Agrawal +96 more
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Herbivore induction of the glucosinolate-myrosinase defense system: major trends, biochemical bases and ecological significance [PDF]
, 2009 Like many other plant defense compounds, glucosinolates are present constitutively in plant tissues, but are also induced to higher levels by herbivore attack.
Gershenzon, J., Textor, S.
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The importance of sampling standardization for comparisons of insect herbivory in deep time: a case study from the late Palaeozoic [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Sampling standardization has not been fully addressed for the study of insect herbivory in the fossil record. The effects of sampling within a single locality were explored almost a decade ago, but the importance of sampling standardization for ...
Sandra R. Schachat +2 more
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Microbiome: Insect Herbivory Drives Plant Phyllosphere Dysbiosis [PDF]
Current Biology, 2020 A well-known trade-off exists between plant defenses against herbivores and defenses against pathogens, but few studies incorporate the plant microbiome. A new study by Humphrey and Whiteman shows that herbivory reshapes the leaf microbiome and increases susceptibility to potential bacterial pathogens.
Smets, Wenke, Koskella, Britt
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The role of isoprene in insect herbivory [PDF]
Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2008 Several hypotheses have previously been proposed to explain the function of isoprene in plants, including its ability to protect the leaf metabolic machinery from transient high temperature1,2 and from oxidative stress.3 Isoprene may also serve as a metabolic overflow mechanism for carbon or photosynthetic energy4-6 and may promote flowering in ...
Laothawornkitkul, Jullada +6 more
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Acylsugars protect Nicotiana benthamiana against insect herbivory and desiccation [PDF]
Plant Molecular Biology, 2021 Abstract Nicotiana benthamiana is used extensively as a transient expression platform for functional analysis of genes from other species. Acylsugars, which are produced in the trichomes, are a hypothesized cause of the relatively high insect resistance that is observed in N. benthamiana. We characterized the N.
Feng, Honglin +12 more
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Lack of correlation between constitutive and induced resistance to a herbivore in crucifer plants: real or flawed by experimental methods? [PDF]
, 2009 The correlation between constitutive and induced resistance to herbivores in plants has long been of interest to evolutionary biologists, and various approaches to determining levels of resistance have been used in this field of research.
Dicke, M. +4 more
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Foliar Herbivory Reduces Rhizosphere Fungal Diversity and Destabilizes the Co-occurrence Network
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Insect herbivores can adversely impact terrestrial plants throughout ontogeny and across various ecosystems. Simultaneously, the effects of foliar herbivory may extend belowground, to the soil microbial community.
Yu Shi +6 more
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