Plant defense : warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores and parasitic plants /
Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defense, including defense against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defenses, and constitutive and inducible defenses. Including de...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, IA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defense, including defense against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defenses, and constitutive and inducible defenses. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to neighboring plants, how plants coordinate defense responses to simultaneous multiple attacks, and the energy and resources expended by a plant in maintaining and implementing its defense systems. --From publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781444328547 1444328549 1405175893 9781405175890 |