Insect Chemoreception Fundamental and Applied /

• Main Author: Ryan, Michael F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

In this time of edited volumes when the list of individual contributors may reach double figures, it is appropriate to question the usefulness of a volume, with such a broad scope, by a single author. The answer is simple. For years he has believed that the rather sharp distinction between fundament...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamental Aspects
• Plant Chemicals
• Pheromones
• The Chemoreceptive Organs: Structural Aspects
• Electrophysiology of Chemoreception
• Biochemistry of Chemoreception
• and Overview
• Applied Aspects
• Plant Chemicals in Pest Control
• Host Plant Resistance
• Pheromones in Plant Protection
• Genetic Engineering.