Latex: A Model for Understanding Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivory

By A. Agrawal, K. Konno. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Robin A. Bingham
2. S. Heard
3. Ellen C Woods
4. A. Hastings
5. Nash E. Turley
6. Sergio Rasmann
7. J. C. Roode
8. Aamina Ahmad

In Molecular Biology

1. Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg
2. Søren Bak
3. A. Agrawal
4. Mika Zagrobelny

In Plant Science

1. Aamina Ahmad
2. Leiling Tao
3. J. C. Roode
4. M. Hunter
5. A. Agrawal
6. Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg
7. Søren Bak
8. Sergio Rasmann

Citations in the corpus

• Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence (2011, background): “Just under 10% of all plant species (and 10% of plant families) produce latex, which is typically a physical barrier to feeding and contains high concentrations of defensive chemicals (Agrawal and Konno 2009) (Photo by Pete Van Zandt).”
• Plant Defense against Insect Herbivores (2013, background): “Latex laticifers are found in more than 10% of the angiosperms, and is especially common in the tropics [313].”
• Specificity and trade‐offs in the induced plant defence of common milkweed Asclepias syriaca to two lepidopteran herbivores (2010, background): “Specificity and trade-offs in the induced plant defence of common milkweed Asclepias syriaca to two lepidopteran herbivores”
• Adaptive geographical clines in the growth and defense of a native plant (2012, background): “Asclepias syriaca employs constitutive and induced plant defenses, the most potent of which are latex (Zalucki and Malcolm 1999, Van Zandt and Agrawal 2004, Agrawal and Konno 2009) and cardiac glycosides (cardenolides) (Malcolm 1991, Agrawal 2005).”
• Growth–defense tradeoffs for two major anti‐herbivore traits of the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca (2015, background): “The final best model is highlighted in bold.”
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect plant tolerance and chemical defences to herbivory through different mechanisms (2016, background): “Although milkweeds contain a suite of secondary metabolites including flavonoids, alkaloids and cysteine proteases (Agrawal & Konno 2009), the most important chemical defences in the genus are cardenolides, toxic steroids that disrupt animal Na+-”