Insect–Plant Interaction in Agroecosystems
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 864
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant defense; multi-trophic interactions; herbivore-induced plant volatiles; chemical ecology; biological control
Interests: banker plant system; vector–plant–virus interactions; tri-trophic interactions; integrated pest management; biological control; behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of plant–insect interaction has been a hot topic within research for some time. As a supporter, plants not only provide habitat, food and refuge for insects, but also transfer basic communication information between them. Meanwhile, when insects attack plants, they not only cause physical damage to plants, but also trigger underlying plant defense responses. Moreover, natural enemies use plant volatiles for host location and foraging. Therefore, the plant–insect interaction is complex.
Understanding the functioning of this complex of interacting species requires studies into their population dynamics in space and time and the underlying trophic and informational mechanisms. In recent years, with the rapid development of technologies and methods such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, RNAi and gene editing, new opportunities and challenges have been provided that will enable us to explore the interactions between plants and insects in areas ranging from genes to ecosystems.
This Special Issue, entitled “Insect–Plant Interaction in Agroecosystems” will include interdisciplinary studies embracing agriculture with disciplines of biology, physiology, ecology and genomics. All types of articles are welcome, including original research, opinions and reviews. Research articles will cover a broad range of plant–insect interaction, with topics ranging from community to genes. In short, we hope that this Special Issue can not only deepen our understanding of plant–insect interaction, but also promote the development of new approaches to and technologies for pest control.
Prof. Dr. Shi-Ze Zhang
Dr. Yin-Quan Liu
Prof. Dr. Ping Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant defense
- insect effectors
- plant–insect interaction
- multi-trophic interactions
- bottom-up interaction
- top-down interaction
- herbivore-induced plant volatiles
- plant secondary metabolites
- plant–insect interaction under climate change
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