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Toward a General Theory of Plant Antiherbivore Chemistry

Toward a General Theory of Plant Antiherbivore Chemistry

Authors :
David F. Rhoades
Rex G. Cates
Source :
Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects ISBN: 9781468426489
Publication Year :
1976
Publisher :
Springer US, 1976.

Abstract

Much research has been conducted in an attempt to fit the so-called plant secondary substances into the general framework of plant metabolism. Though some success has been achieved in this area, e.g., chlorogenic acid as a regulator of plant metabolic systems under stress21, most such studies have met with a conspicuous lack of success. Possible metabolic roles for the plant alkaloids as intermediate metabolites have probably received the greatest such attention and it was concluded at an early stage44 that, since a definitive metabolic role could not be assigned to alkaloids, they best be considered as plant waste products. More recent workers in the field of alkaloid biochemistry have concurred with this evaluation44,83 and the “waste product hypothesis” has been expanded, principally by Muller (1969, 1970), to include plant secondary substances in general.

Details

ISBN :
978-1-4684-2648-9
ISBNs :
9781468426489
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects ISBN: 9781468426489
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........3892644f4f4b3a5321644ae64440eebf
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2646-5_4