书目名称 | Molecular Aspects of Insect-Plant Associations | 编辑 | Lena B. Brattsten,Sami Ahmad | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Thanks to the meticulous and enthusiastic work of insect collectors and taxonomists over the past hundred years and more, we have today a large amount of information on the feeding habits and life styles of sev eral hundred thousands of insect species. Insects that feed on plants during at least one of their life stages constitute about half of the three-quarters of a million described species. Their numbers both in terms of species and individuals together with their small but macroscopic sizes makes the insect-plant biological interface perhaps the most conspicuous, diverse and largest assemblage of intimate interspecies interactions in existence. It is also perhaps the most important biological interface be cause of the plants‘ role as primary producers upon which all other forms of earthly life depend, thereby bringing herbivorous insects occasionally into direct competition with human food and fiber production. Early enthusiasm revealed many remarkable specializations and associ ations between insects and plants, and occasionally assigned chemical me diators for them. However, the modern practices of large scale crop pro tection by synthetic pesticides and their attendant | 出版日期 | Book 1986 | 关键词 | Adaptation; Coevolution; Pet; alkaloids; amino acid; behavior; enzymes; growth; insects; metabolism; molecular | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1865-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-9040-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-1865-1 | copyright | Plenum Press, New York 1986 |
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