While once considered noise in the background of constitutive resistance, the phenomenon
of induced resistance to herbivores and pathogens is now firmly accepted as an integral …

Plants defend themselves against attack by herbivores with a variety of physical and
chemical defences, some of which also work by recruiting partners from the third trophic …

One of the goals of chemical ecology is to assess costs of plant defenses. Intraspecific trade-
offs between growth and defense are traditionally viewed in the context of the carbon …

Plant genomes encode large numbers of nucleotide-binding (NB) leucine-rich repeat (LRR)
immune receptors (NLR) that mediate effector triggered immunity (ETI) and play key roles in …

The idea that galling insects actively manipulate host plant chemistry has been previously
documented but has not been quantified across a range of galler and host plant taxa. We …

Contents of phenolic compounds in leaf extracts often serve as a measure of plant anti-
herbivore defence. This method suffers from the multifunctionality of phenolics and from …

Herbivores target young leaves in forests world‐wide. How this strong and predictable
selection pressure has shaped plant defence syndromes remains unclear. Specifically …

Isolation of high-quality DNA from plants, especially plants from the Cerrado, is notoriously
difficult because of polysaccharides and secondary compounds produced by plants from this …

The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the most endangered biomes in the world. We evaluated the
sustainability of leaf harvest in one of the most important Cerrado tree species …

Arabidopsis thaliana MYB43 (AtMYB43) is suggested to be involved in cell wall lignification.
PtrMYB152, the Populus orthologue of AtMYB43, is a transcriptional activator of lignin …