Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects

by Michael R. Wagner (editor)

Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Resistance in trees to insects - An overview of mechanisms and interactions; S. Larson. 2. Mechanisms of resistance in conifers and bark beetle attack strategies; F. Lieutier. 3. Mechanisms of resistance in trees to defoliators; K. Clancy. 4. Mechanisms of Resistance in Conifers against shoot infesting insects. The case of the white pine weevil Pissodes strobi (Peck): ( Curculionidae); R.I. Alfaro, et al. 5. Host tree resistance to wood-boring insects; T.D. Paine. 6. Plant resistance against gall-forming the role of hypersensititiy; T.G. Cornelissen, et al. 7. The resistance of hybrid willows to specialist and generalist herbivores and the potential role of secondary chemistry and parent host plant status; J. Hjältén, P. Hallgren. 8. Deploying pest resistance in genetically-limited forest developing ecologically-based strategies for managing risk; D.J. Robinson. 9. Deployment of tree resistance to insects in short-rotation Populus; D.R. Coyle, et al. 10. Strategies for Deployment of Insect Resistant Ornamental Plants; D.A. Herms. 11. Possibilities to utilize tree resistance to insects in forest pest management in central and western Europe; C.H. Heidger, F. Lieutier. 12. Deployment of tree resistance to pests in Asia; N. Kamata. 13. Using Resistance in Tropical Forest Plantations; J.D. Nichols, et al. Index.

348 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2002