Ecology of Plant Secondary Metabolites (eBook, ePUB)

From Genes to Global Processes
Redaktion: Iason, Glenn R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) such as terpenes and phenolic compounds are known to have numerous ecological roles, notably in defence against herbivores, pathogens and abiotic stresses and in interactions with competitors and mutualists. This book reviews recent developments in the field to provide a synthesis of the function, ecology and evolution of PSMs, revealing our increased awareness of their integrative role in connecting natural systems. It emphasises the multiple roles of secondary metabolites in mediating the interactions between organisms and their environment at a range of scales of ecological organisation, demonstrating how genes encoding for PSM biosynthetic enzymes can have effects from the cellular scale within individual plants all the way to global environmental processes. A range of recent methodological advances, including molecular, transgenic and metabolomic techniques, are illustrated and promising directions for future studies are identified, making this a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139365291
• Artikelnr.: 52847738

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. The integrative roles of plant secondary metabolites in natural
systems: a synthesis Glenn R. Iason, Marcel Dicke and Susan E. Hartley; 2.
Natural selection for anti-herbivore plant secondary metabolites: a
Eucalyptus system Julianne M. O'Reilly-Wapstra, Clare McArthur and Brad M.
Potts; 3. Temporal changes in plant secondary metabolite production:
patterns, causes and consequences Julia Koricheva and Kasey E. Barton; 4.
Mixtures in plant chemical defence: metabolic origins and ecological
benefits Jonathan Gershenzon, Anna Fontana, Meike Burow, Ute Wittstock and
Joerg Degenhardt; 5. The herbivore's prescription: a pharm-ecological
perspective on host plant use by vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores
Jennifer S. Forbey and Mark D. Hunter; 6. Volatile isoprenoids and abiotic
stresses Francesca Bagnoli, Silvia Fineschi and Francesco Loreto; 7.
Atmospheric change, plant secondary metabolites, and ecological
interactions Richard L. Lindroth; 8. The role of plant secondary
metabolites in freshwater macrophyte-herbivore interactions: limited or
unexplored chemical defences? Elisabeth M. Gross and Elisabeth S. Bakker;
9. The soil microbial community and plant foliar defences against insects
Alan C. Gange, René Eschen and Viviane Schroeder; 10. Phytochemicals as
mediators of aboveground-belowground interactions in plants Nicole M. van
Dam; 11. Plant secondary metabolites and the interactions between plants
and other organisms: the potential of a metabolomic approach Susan E.
Hartley, Rene Eschen, Julia M. Horwood, Lynne Robinson and Elizabeth M.
Hill; 12. Integrating the effects of PSMs on vertebrate herbivores across
spatial and temporal scales Ben D. Moore and Jane L. DeGabriel; 13. Plant
secondary metabolite polymorphisms and the extended chemical phenotype
Glenn R. Iason, Ben D. Moore, Jack J. Lennon, Jenni A. Stockan, Graham H.
R. Osler, Joanne R. Russell, Colin D. Campbell, David A. Sim and Joan R.
Beaton; 14. From genes to ecosystems: emerging concepts bridging ecological
and evolutionary dynamics Joseph K. Bailey, Jennifer A. Schweitzer,
Francisco Úbeda, Matthew Zinkgraf, Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick, Julianne
O'Reilly-Wapstra, Brian J. Rehill, Carri J. LeRoy, Bradley M. Potts, Thomas
G. Whitham, Mark A. Genung, Dylan G. Fischer, Clara C. Pregitzer and Arthur
Keith; 15. Asking the ecosystem if herbivory-inducible plant volatiles
(hipvs) have defensive functions Meredith C. Schuman and Ian T. Baldwin;
16. Dynamics of plant secondary metabolites and consequences for food
chains and community dynamics Marcel Dicke, Rieta Gols and Erik H. Poelman;
Index.