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The Role of Roots in Plant Defense Responses to Aboveground Herbivores

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Plants have developed sophisticated strategies to protect themselves against insect herbivores. The impact insect herbivores cause on world agriculture has resulted in intense research on plant defense mechanisms against insect herbivory. Roots are increasingly being recognized as important contributors to plant defenses not only against belowground insect herbivores but also against aboveground herbivores (AGH). Transcriptional profiling of roots during AGH has revealed that plants are capable of fine-tuning their response depending on which part of the plant, the root or the shoot, is under attack. Roots also serve as the sites of synthesis of numerous defensive compounds that exert anti-herbivore effects in the shoots. Roots act as sites of storage during herbivore induced resource sequestration. The interaction of roots with a wide variety of soil microbes also influences the outcome of plant–insect interactions. This chapter summarizes the current status of research on roots as important contributors to plant defense against AGH.

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  2. Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ajit Varma

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Nalam, V.J., Nachappa, P. (2014). The Role of Roots in Plant Defense Responses to Aboveground Herbivores. In: Morte, A., Varma, A. (eds) Root Engineering. Soil Biology, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54276-3_17

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