Parasitoid wasps are important components of insect food chains and have played a central
role in biological control programs for over a century. Although the vast majority of …

During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

Plants emit a large variety of volatile organic compounds during infection by pathogenic
microbes, including terpenes, aromatics, nitrogen‐containing compounds, and fatty acid …

Plant-derived volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play pivotal roles in interactions with
insect herbivores. Individual VOCs can be directly toxic or deterrent, serve as signal …

Plants are faced with various biotic and abiotic stresses during their life cycle. To withstand
these stresses, plants have evolved adaptive strategies including the production of a wide …

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

As primary producers, plants are under constant pressure to defend themselves against
potentially deadly pathogens and herbivores. In this review, we describe short-and long …

Plant defense responses against insect herbivores are induced through wound-induced
signaling and the specific perception of herbivore-associated molecular patterns (HAMPs) …

Plant volatiles comprise thousands of molecules from multiple metabolic pathways,
distinguished by sufficient vapor pressure to evaporate into the headspace under normal …

Biological control (biocontrol) is a safe, sustainable approach that takes advantage of
natural enemies such as predators, parasitic insects or pathogens to manage pests in …