Plant defense
Subtitle: warding off attack by pathogens, pests and vertebrate herbivores
By: Dale R. Walters
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781444328554; 9781405175890
Subjects: Plants; Disease and pest resistance; Agriculture; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; General
Description: Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to neighbouring plants, how plants coordinate defence responses to simultaneous multiple attacks, and the energy and resources expended by a plant in maintaining and implementing its defence systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: PLANT DEFENSE; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Why Do Plants Need Defenses?; Chapter 2 What Defenses Do Plants Use?; Chapter 3 Sounding the Alarm: Signaling and Communication in Plant Defense; Chapter 4 Plant Defense in the Real World: Multiple Attackers and Beneficial Interactions; Chapter 5 The Evolution of Plant Defense; Chapter 6 Exploiting Plant Defense; Index.