The theory of plant-insect coevolution provides for diffuse coevolution and the expectation that plants evolve broad-spectrum chemical defenses with which some insects coevolve by detoxifying and using the compounds as host-location cues. Specific biochemical modes of action have been assigned to re
Plant-insect coevolution and inhibition of acetylcholinesterase
β Scribed by M. F. Ryan; Oonagh Byrne
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 537 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-0331
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