How Plants Communicate with their Biotic Environment

How Plants Communicate with Their Biotic Environment addresses how plants perceive the presence of organisms (other plants, microbes, insects and nematodes) living in their proximity, how they manage to be attractive when these organisms are friendly, and how they defend themselves from foes. Specific chapters delve into ecology and defense mechanisms, allelopathy and the role of allelochemicals in plant defense, plant signaling, and plant communication with microbes and animals, including herbivores. In addition, the book presents discussions on communication and its role in plant pollination. This comprehensive resource presents tactics that can be taken from the lab, to the bench, to the forest.

Gathers, under a common general outline, a comprehensive knowledge issued from distinct scientific communitiesCombines three life science disciplines, including ecology, evolutionary biology, and molecular biologyAddresses a topical subject as the natural biological processes described represent basic knowledge that help develop low input sustainable agricultureWritten by renowned scientists in their field

Part 1: Plant-Plant Communication 1. From the Lab Bench to the Forest: Ecology and Defence Mechanisms of Volatile-Mediated ‘Talking Trees’ 2. Allelopathy and the Role of Allelochemicals in Plant Defence 3. Communication Between Host Plants and Parasitic Plants 4. Plant–Plant Communication Through Common Mycorrhizal Networks

Part 2: Plant Communication With Microbes 5. Plant Communication With Associated Microbiota in the Spermosphere, Rhizosphere and Phyllosphere 6. Chatting With a Tiny Belowground Member of the Holobiome: Communication Between Plants and Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria 7. Effector-Mediated Communication of Filamentous Plant Pathogens With Their Hosts 8. Commonalities in Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Signalling

Part 3: Plant Communication With Animals 9. Plant–Pollinator Communication 10. Mimicry and Deception in Pollination 11. Plant Communication With Herbivores 12. Communication of Sedentary Plant-Parasitic Nematodes With Their Host Plants