Success of plants largely depends on their ability to defend against herbivores. Since
emergence of the first voracious consumers, plants maintained adapting their structures and …

The beneficial effects of functionally useful plants (eg medicinal and food plants) arise from
the multi-target activities of multiple ingredients of these plants. The knowledge of the …

Introduction The interactions between plants and insect herbivores are complex and
multifaceted. Rice and its specialist insect pest the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Glucosinolates (GS) are a class of plant secondary metabolites
that provide defense against herbivores and may play an important role in pollinator …

The latex of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) is a source of a special kind of acylsugars called
resin glycosides, which are highly appreciated because of their biological activities (ie …

Facing complex environments, plants answer with equally complex metabolic outputs to
optimize the use of their resources despite ecological and metabolic trade-offs. These …

The Physalis genus includes species of commercial importance due to their ornamental,
edible and medicinal properties. These qualities stem from their variety of biologically active …

水稻(Oryza sativa) 代谢物在水稻与褐飞虱(Nilaparvata lugens) 相互作用中有非常重要的作用.
初生代谢物和非挥发性的次生代谢物决定褐飞虱在水稻上的取食及存活, 并可能具有直接的抗虫 …

The consequences of climate change for biogeographic range dynamics depend on the
spatial scales at which climate influences focal species directly and indirectly via biotic …

Plants produce a huge number of functionally and chemically different natural products that
play an important role in linking the plant with the adjacent environment. Plants can also …