Plant defense : warding off attack by pathogens, pests and vertebrate herbivores /

One of the important developments in understanding plant defense is the recognition that this chemistry works across spheres of agents attempting to utilize plants as food reservoirs. The profound advances in the chemistry of pest-predator interactions will excite readers at virtually every level of botanical science. This book juxtaposes the analysis of complex interactions such as chemical signaling by plants with multiple attackers with the chemistry of biological agents overcoming plant defenses. Crop protection authority Walters (Scottish Agricultural College, UK) provides a new approach to viewing these complex relations. In addition, readers will learn about advances in the concepts of the coevolution of defense and the exploitation and enhancement of plant defenses through plant breeding. Questions and issues remain, but the striking progress in developing an understanding of chemical interactions will certainly provide plant scientists with a better appreciation of future enhancement of plant protection. The advances in this field have been striking. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. R. Frederiksen emeritus, Texas A&M University