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Behavioral Adaptations in Insects to Plant Allelochemicals

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Molecular Aspects of Insect-Plant Associations

Abstract

Insects which obtain their nutrition from plants encounter an arsenal of physical and chemical defenses protecting plant tissues (Levin, 1976; Rhoades and Cates, 1976; Wallace and Mansell, 1976; Rhoades, 1979; Rosenthal and Janzen, 1979; Futuyma, 1983). Plants deploy their chemical defenses in two ways (Levin, 1976). A base-line defense is maintained at all times to deter herbivory through direct toxicity or by reducing the digestibility of plant tissues. A second line of defense behaves facultatively: plants mobilize or produce allelochemicals de novo in response to tissue damage from herbivores (Rhoades, 1979, 1983; Ryan, 1983). In combination, the constitutive and inducible (facultative) defenses of a particular plant are comprised of a species-specific set of chemicals that deters all herbivores except those few with an appropriate suite of counter-adaptations (Ehrlich and Raven, 1965; Feeny, 1975, 1976; Rhoades and Cates, 1976; Rhoades, 1985).

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