Biophotovoltaics is a novel approach to generate electricity which utilizes the plant's ability to harvest light energy. Under this concept, the photosynthetic electrons from plants are collected to produce an electric ...
Plant infochemistry plays crucial role in governing the tritrophic interactions.
Biological pest control is an environmental friendly approach that uses the
natural enemies to control the pest population. To establish a ...
Plants and their insect herbivores have coexisted for hundreds of millions of years. Insects depend on plants as their primary source of nutrition. This dependence harms the plants immensely and plants produce various ...
Plant defense signaling involves a complex network of interacting signals majorly
regulated by phytohormones. A large number of studies have shown the critical role
played by the phytohormones jasmonic acid (JA), salicylic ...
Phenolics are a class of plant metabolites having role in both plant development and defence response, which are present in a wide range of plant families. Chlorogenic acid (CGA) is a secondary metabolite which is known ...
Tortoise beetles (Chiridopsis spp.) are herbivores of morning glory plants (Ipomoea spp.) and they exhibit high level of host specificity. In nature, we have observed these beetles aggregating only on host plants with a ...
Plants and insects interact with each other in a variety of ways. Insects feed on
plants in the majority of plant-insect interactions. Plants challenge insect herbivory
via several defense mechanisms such as physical ...
Lepidopteran pests cause severe crop losses. Synthetic pesticides are injudiciously used to control them, which causes environmental and health hazards. Therefore, the use of safe and eco-friendly botanicals as biopesticides ...
Plant-insect herbivore interactions have been researched mainly using folivore models. Leaf's responses to insect folivory and insect’s counter-responses have been rigorously studied. Interactions of frugivores, the ...
Hostplant location and conspecific aggregation on the hostplant are the key behaviors of several herbivore insect species. The cues used by insects for host identification and aggregation initiation have been researched ...