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Curr Opin Plant Biol

Title:		"Mechanisms, ecological consequences and agricultural implications of tri-trophic interactions"
Author(s):		Agrawal AA;
Address:		"Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3B2, Canada. agrawal@botany.utoronto.ca"
Journal Title:		Curr Opin Plant Biol
Year:		2000
Volume:		3
Issue:		4
Page Number:		329 - 335
DOI:		10.1016/s1369-5266(00)00089-3
ISSN/ISBN:		1369-5266 (Print) 1369-5266 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Recent research bridging mechanistic and ecological approaches demonstrates that plant attributes can affect herbivores, natural enemies of herbivores, and their interaction. Such effects may be genetically variable among plants and/or induced in individual plants by herbivore attack, and are mediated by primary plant attributes (i.e. nutritional quality and physical structure) and defense-related products (i.e. secondary chemicals and plant volatiles), and may be modified by human activity (e.g. by the introduction of Bacillus thuringiensis). The study of tri-trophic interactions is important in order to understand natural species interactions and to manipulate these interactions in pest control"
Keywords:		"Animals Bacillus thuringiensis/genetics/physiology Biotechnology Crops, Agricultural/drug effects/growth & development/microbiology/*parasitology *Ecology *Host-Parasite Interactions/drug effects Insecta/physiology Pest Control, Biological Plant Diseases/;"
Notes:		"MedlineAgrawal, A A eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review England 2000/06/30 Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2000 Aug; 3(4):329-35. doi: 10.1016/s1369-5266(00)00089-3"