Diverse molecular processes regulate the interactions between plants and insect
herbivores. Here, we review genes and proteins that are involved in plant–herbivore …

There is no argument to the fact that insect herbivores cause significant losses to plant
productivity in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. To counter this continuous …

Plants respond to herbivory through various morphological, biochemicals, and molecular
mechanisms to counter/offset the effects of herbivore attack. The biochemical mechanisms of …

Lipid-derived jasmonates (JAs) play a crucial role in a variety of plant development and
defense mechanisms. In recent years, significant progress has been made toward …

Wounded leaves communicate their damage status to one another through a poorly
understood process of long-distance signalling. This stimulates the distal production of …

There has been a long-standing hypothesis that specialist and generalist insects interact
with plants in distinct ways. Although many tests exist, they typically compare only one …

The capacity to perceive and respond is integral to biological immune systems, but to what
extent can plants specifically recognize and respond to insects? Recent findings suggest …

Increased frequency and severity of drought, as a result of climate change, is expected to
drive critical changes in plant–insect interactions that may elevate rates of tree mortality. The …

Jasmonates (JAs) trigger an important transcriptional reprogramming of plant cells to
modulate both basal development and stress responses. In spite of the importance of …

Arabidopsis thaliana plants fend off insect attack by constitutive and inducible production of
toxic metabolites, such as glucosinolates (GSs). A triple mutant lacking MYC2, MYC3, and …