Table of Contents

Basic Concepts of Plant Defense Against Insect Herbivores.- Direct Defenses in Plants and Their Induction by Wounding and Insect Herbivores.- Herbivore-Induced Indirect Defense: From Induction Mechanisms to Community Ecology.- Induced Defenses and the Cost-Benefit Paradigm.- Induced Direct Defenses.- Leaf Trichome Formation and Plant Resistance to Herbivory.- Resistance at the Plant Cuticle.- Wound-Periderm Formation.- Traumatic Resin Ducts and Polyphenolic Parenchyma Cells in Conifers.- Production of Secondary Metabolites.- Insect-Induced Terpenoid Defenses in Spruce.- Phenylpropanoid Metabolism Induced by Wounding and Insect Herbivory.- Defense by Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids: Developed by Plants and Recruited by Insects.- Anti-nutritional Enzymes and Proteins.- Plant Protease Inhibitors: Functional Evolution for Defense.- Defensive Roles of Polyphenol Oxidase in Plants.- Action of Plant Defensive Enzymes in the Insect Midgut.- Plant Lectins as Part of the Plant Defense System Against Insects.- Defense Signaling.- Systemins and AtPeps: Defense-Related Peptide Signals.- MAP Kinases in Plant Responses to Herbivory.- Jasmonate Biosynthesis and Signaling for Induced Plant Defense against Herbivory.- Signals Between Plants and Insects.- Caterpillar Secretions and Induced Plant Responses.- Fatty Acid-Derived Signals that Induce or Regulate Plant Defenses Against Herbivory.- Aromatic Volatiles and Their Involvement in Plant Defense.- Ecological Roles of Vegetative Terpene Volatiles.

Reviews

From the reviews: "‘Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory’ edited by Andreas Schaller contains three major sections comprising a total of 21 chapters. … A broader and more complete overview of induced plant defences against herbivores would have made the book more interesting for a broader reader-ship. … every chapter gives a detailed insight into a fascinating topic and is certainly worth to read for those who are working in the area and are in search for a rapid update on their own or a closely related research topic." (Martin Heil, Basic and Applied Ecology, Vol. 10, 2009)