If you have ever maintained a garden and had issues with insect pests, it may be hard to believe that plants, in general, are a poor food source for insects. Among the greatest challenges for ...

Planthoppers and leafhoppers not only feed on rice plants but also act as highly efficient vectors for plant viruses, causing ...

Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasingly recognised for their profound impact on terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in the dynamics between plants and insects. Under heightened ...

A combined defense of different chemical defense substances could result in a negative interaction and mutual detoxification, according to a new study on the wild tobacco species Nicotiana attenuata ...

Plants in this family are ideal candidates for the technology, as they already naturally produce large amounts of volatile compounds. The researchers produced a genetically modified dwarf version of ...

Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from plants into their genome. A research team reveals that whiteflies use this stolen gene to degrade common ...

Secondary metabolites play an important role in determining the diversity and behavior of arthropods associated with focal plant species, in addition to mediating interactions between different ...

Brightly colored beetles or butterfly larvae nibbling on a plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic diseases, according to ...

Funding for this research was provided to Gregg Howe by the Plant Resilience Institute at Michigan State University. Nathan Havko receives funding from the Michigan State University Plant Resilience ...

The reasoning behind these rules makes sense once you know the unique natural history of carnivorous plants. Although the most well-known carnivorous plant, the Venus flytrap, is native only to a ...