Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens

Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics

edited by Robert S. Fritz and Ellen L. Simms

University of Chicago Press, 1992
Cloth: 978-0-226-26553-7 | Paper: 978-0-226-26554-4 | Electronic: 978-0-226-92485-4
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226924854.001.0001

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ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Far from being passive elements in the landscape, plants have developed many sophisticated chemical and mechanical means of deterring organisms that seek to prey on them. This volume draws together research from ecology, evolution, agronomy, and plant pathology to produce an ecological genetics perspective on plant resistance in both natural and agricultural systems. By emphasizing the ecological and evolutionary basis of resistance, the book makes an important contribution to the study of how phytophages and plants coevolve.

Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens not only reviews the literature pertaining to plant resistance from a number of traditionally separate fields but also examines significant questions that will drive future research. Among the topics explored are selection for resistance in plants and for virulence in phytophages; methods for studying natural variation in plant resistance; the factors that maintain intraspecific variation in resistance; and the ecological consequences of within-population genetic variation for herbivorous insects and fungal pathogens.

"A comprehensive review of the theory and information on a large, rapidly growing, and important subject."—Douglas J. Futuyma, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Preface

1. Ecological Genetics of Plant-Phytophage Interactions / Robert S. Fritz and Ellen L. Simms

I. Analysis and Inheritance of Resistance Variation

2. Resistance Variation in Natural and Managed Systems / George G. Kennedy and James D. Barbour

3. Uses of Quantitative Genetics for Studying the Evolution of Plant Resistance / Ellen L. Simms and Mark D. Rausher

4. Quantification of Chemical Coevolution / May R. Berenbaum and Arthur R. Zangerl

II. Evolutionary Responses to Plant Resistance by Herbivores and Pathogens

5. Evolution of Herbivore Virulence to Plant Resistance: Influence of Variety Mixtures / Lawrence R. Wilhoit

6. Insect Distribution Patterns and the Evolution of Host Use / Diana Pilson

7. Plant Variation and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Herbivore Performance / Arthur E. Weis

8. Diversity in Plant Pathogenic Fungi as Influenced by Host Characteristics / James V. Groth and Barbara J. Christ

III. Population and Community Responses to Plant Resistance Variation

9. Plant Variation: Its Effects on Populations of Herbivorous Insects / Richard Karban

10. The Importance of Deterrence: Responses of Grazing Animals to Plant Variation / A. Joseph Pollard

11. Community Structure and Species Interactions of Phytophagous Insects on Resistant and Susceptible Host Plants / Robert S. Fritz

12. Effects of Plant Variation on Herbivore–Natural Enemy Interactions / J. Daniel Hare

IV. Evolution of Plant Resistance

13. The Selective Impact of Herbivores / Robert J. Marquis

14. Evolution of Disease Resistance in Natural Plant Populations / Helen M. Alexander

15. Disease and Plant Population Genetic Structure / Matthew A. Parker

16. Theory and Pattern in Plant Defense Allocation / Arthur R. Zangerl and Fahkri A. Bazzaz

17. Costs of Plant Resistance to Herbivory / Ellen L. Simms

18. Toward Community Genetics / Janis Antonovics

References

Contributors

Taxonomic Index

Subject Index