Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is
getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been …

Plant genes participating in the recognition of aphid herbivory in concert with plant genes
involved in defense against herbivores mediate plant resistance to aphids. Several such …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

Many aphids are major agricultural pests because of their unparalleled reproductive
capacity and their ability to manipulate host plant physiology. Aphid population growth and …

A 12 kDa cysteine‐rich protein is secreted by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici during
colonization of tomato xylem vessels. Peptide sequences obtained with mass spectrometry …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Aphids damage major world food and fiber crops through direct feeding and transmission of
plant viruses. Fortunately, the development of many aphid‐resistant crop plants has …

Phloem feeding involves unique biological interactions between the herbivore and its host
plant. The economic importance of aphids, whiteflies, and other phloem‐feeding insects as …

Integration of the tools of genetics, genomics, and biochemistry has provided new
approaches for identifying genes responding to herbivory. As a result, a picture of the …

Aphids and related insects feed from a single cell type in plants: the phloem sieve element.
Genetic resistance to Acyrthosiphon kondoi Shinji (bluegreen aphid or blue alfalfa aphid) …