Plants are constantly challenged by insect pests that can dramatically decrease yields.
Insects with piercing-sucking mouthparts, for example, aphids, whiteflies, and leaf hoppers …

The biggest challenge for modern biology is to integrate multidisciplinary approaches
towards understanding the organizational and functional complexity of biological systems at …

Although much is known about plant traits that function in nonhost resistance against
pathogens, little is known about nonhost resistance against herbivores, despite its …

Attack from insect herbivores poses a major threat to plant survival, and accordingly, plants
have evolved sophisticated defence systems. Maize is cultivated as a staple crop worldwide …

Plants intricately deploy defense systems to counter diverse biotic and abiotic stresses.
Omics technologies, spanning genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics …

Plant defense compounds play a key role in the evolution of insect–plant associations by
selecting for behavioral, morphological, and physiological insect adaptations. Sequestration …

There is always a silent war between plants and herbivorous insects that we are rarely privy
to. In this silent war, chemicals act as both weapons and messengers. Insect–plant co …

Background Animal-derived elicitors can be used by plants to detect herbivory but they
function only in specific insect–plant interactions. How can plants generally perceive …

How plants respond to attack by the range of herbivores and pathogens that confront them in
the field is the subject of considerable research by both molecular biologists and ecologists …

Plant-herbivore relationships are complex interactions encompassing elaborate networks of
molecules, signals and strategies used to overcome defences developed by each other …