InhaltsangabeIn Memoriam; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Section I. Basic concepts of plant defense against insect herbivores:1. Direct defenses in plants and their induction by wounding and insect herbivores; Gregg A. Howe and Andreas Schaller.- 2. Herbivore-induced indirect defense: from induction mechanisms to community ecology; Maaike Bruinsma and Marcel Dicke.- 3. Induced defenses and the cost-benefit paradigm; Anke Steppuhn and Ian T. Baldwin.- Section II. Induced direct defenses:A: Anatomical defenses: 4. Leaf trichome formation and plant resistance to herbivory; Peter Dalin, Jon Ågren, Christer Björkman, Piritta Huttunen, and Katri Kärkkäinen.- 5. Resistance at the plant cuticle; Caroline Müller.- 6. Wound-periderm formation; Idit Ginzberg.- 7. Traumatic resin ducts and polyphenolic parenchyma cells in conifers; Paal Krokene, Nina Elisabeth Nagy, and Trygve Krekling.- B: Production of secondary metabolites: 8. Insect-induced terpenoid defenses in spruce; Jörg Bohlmann.- 9. Phenylpropanoid metabolism induced by wounding and insect herbivory; Mark A. Bernards and Lars Båstrup-Spohr.- 10. Defense by pyrrolizidine alkaloids: developed by plants and recruited by insects; Thomas Hartmann and Dietrich Ober.- C: Anti-nutritional enzymes and proteins: 11. Plant protease inhibitors: Functional evolution for defense; Maarten A. Jongsma and Jules Beekwilder.- 12. Defensive roles of polyphenol oxidase in plants; C. Peter Constabel and Raymond Barbehenn.- 13. Action of plant defensive enzymes in the insect midgut; Hui Chen, Eliana Gonzales-Vigil, and Gregg A. Howe.- 14. Plant lectins as part of the plant defense system against insects; Els J.M. Van Damme.- Section III. Defense signaling; A: Activation of plant defenses: 15. Systemins and AtPeps: Defense-related peptide signals; Javier Narváez-Vásquez and Martha L. Orozco-Cárdenas.- 16. MAP kinases in plant responses to herbivory; Johannes Stratmann.- 17. Jasmonate biosynthesis and signaling for induced plant defense against herbivory; Andreas Schaller and Annick Stintzi.- B: Signals between plants and insects: 18. Caterpillar secretions and induced plant responses; Gary W. Felton.- 19. Fatty acid-derived signals that induce or regulate plant defenses against herbivory: James H. Tumlinson and Juergen Engelberth.- 20. Aromatic volatiles and their involvement in plant defense; Anthony V. Qualley and Natalia Dudareva.- 21. Ecological roles of vegetative terpene volatiles; Jörg Degenhardt.- Subject Index.- Taxonomic Index.- Abbreviations