Walters D.R. Plant Defense: Warding off Attack by Pathogens, Herbivores, and Parasitic Plants

Blackwell Publishing, 2011. — 237 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-17589-0.Plants are virtually stationary packages of food. They are sources of nourishment for thousands of fungi, bacteria, invertebrates, vertebrates, and even other plants. With so much of the biotic environment of our planet dependent on plants, it is surprising that plants exist at all. The fact that plants not only survive but thrive in nearly all environments on earth is testimony to their remarkable ability to deal with, what can at times be, a hostile environment. Indeed, plants possess a truly remarkable diversity of mechanisms to fend off attackers, and recent research shows just how complex and sophisticated these defence mechanisms can be. And to top it all, there are the internal signaling networks coordinating
defence responses within the plant and the ability to warn neighboring plants.Why Do Plants Need Defenses?
What Defenses Do Plants Use?
Sounding the Alarm: Signaling and Communication in Plant Defense
Plant Defense in the Real World: Multiple Attackers and Beneficial Interactions
The Evolution of Plant Defense
Exploiting Plant Defense