Does the plant defend itself against leaf-feeding insects?

Paul M. Rafes

Treesearch

Does the plant defend itself against leaf-feeding insects?

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Paul M. Rafes

Year:

1991

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 215-216.

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Abstract

Trees do not actively respond to herbivore grazing, they react to the deterioration in the balance of their roots and crowns functions, which comes when transpiration powers fall off. Such inherent reactions of plants originated as abilities to restore photosynthesis.

Parent Publication

Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees

Citation

Rafes, Paul M. 1991. Does the plant defend itself against leaf-feeding insects?. In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 215-216.