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The Chemistry of Plant Signalling

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Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective

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This chapter highlights the contribution that chemical sciences, i.e. analytical and synthetic organic chemistry, has made to the understanding of plant–insect interactions from an ecological perspective. This includes a general overview of the approaches and techniques used in the isolation of natural products that play a role in mediating such interactions and recent examples of the important role that chemical techniques have played. It covers plant-derived signals that are both constitutively produced and those induced in response to defence signalling stimuli, including insect attack. It also includes insect-derived elicitors of plant defence. Finally, future prospects of the role of chemical sciences in plant–insect interaction studies are discussed.

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Birkett, M.A. (2010). The Chemistry of Plant Signalling. In: Baluška, F., Ninkovic, V. (eds) Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12162-3_2

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