Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites

It has been more than ten years since the first edition of this book was published. During this time, our understanding of the interactions between plants and the animals that consume them, as mediated by secondary compounds (allelochemicals) of plants, has grown dramatically. In the Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites, Second Edition, only those areas of research where significant progress has been made since 1979 are included, and most of the contributing authors are new. This edition has been split into two volumes due to the vast amount of new material that has been generated on this subject. Both volumes will be of interest to evolutionary biologists, agriculturists, chemists, biochemists, physiologists, and ecologists. Volume 1, provides an exhaustive update and review of the chemical and biochemical bases for the role and function of allelochemicals in their defense against herbivores. Volume 2, scheduled for publication in April 1992, provides a current update of the research on the ecological roles and evolutionary nature of secondary plant metabolites in their interactions among plants and as protective agents against environmental stresses such as consumption by herbivores.

Researchers and graduate students in plant and animal biochemistry, entomology, ecology, and agriculture.

G.A. Rosenthal, Nonprotein Amino Acids as Protective Allelochemicals.

D. Seigler, Cyanide and Cyanogenic Glycosides.

T. Hartmann, Alkaloids.

S. Louda and S. Mole, Glucosinolates: Chemistry and Ecology.

J. Gershenzon and R. Croteau, Terpenoids.

M.R. Berenbaum, Coumarins.

S.B. Malcolm, Cardenolide-Meditated Interactions between Plants and Herbivores.

M.D. Bowers, Iridoid Glycosides.

I.E. Liener, Lectins.

A.E. Hagerman and L.G. Butler, Tannins and Lignins.

J.B. Harborne, Flavonoid Pigments.

W.S. Bowers, Insect Hormones and Antihormones in Plants. Chapter References. Subject Index.