supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grants 41688103 and 32020103006).
The Early Cretaceous terrestrial revolution involved global shifts from gymnosperm-to angiosperm-dominated floras.However,responses of insect herbivores to these changes remain unexamined.We evaluated 2176 highly samp...
There are gaps in our understanding of plant responses under different insect phytophagy modes and their subsequent effects on the insect herbivores' performance at late season. Here we compared different types of in...
This study investigated the olfactory responses of 3 thrips species [Frankliniella schultzei Trybom, E occidentalis Pergrande and Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)] to cotton seedlings [Gossypium hir...
We would like to thank Xue-Fang Yang and Shun-Liang Feng for plant harvests. We also thank English editing by Van Driesche Scientific Editing. This work was sup- ported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31470447 and 31200286 to W. Huang, 31370404 to J. Ding).
Successful invasions by exotic plants are often attributed to a loss of co-evolved specialists and a re-allocation of resources from defense to growth and reproduction. However, invasive plants are rarely completely r...
To examine how the major elements of global change affect herbivory in agroecosystems, a multifactorial experiment was conducted where soybeans were grown at two levels of carbon dioxide and temperature, including tho...
The enemies release hypothesis proposes that exotic species can become in- vasive by escaping from predators and parasites in their novel environment. Agrawal et al. (Enemy release? An experiment with congeneric pla...
Plant invasions create novel plant-insect interactions. The EICA (evolution of increased competitive ability) hypothesis proposes that invasive plants will reallocate resources from defense to growth and/or reproduc...
The jasmonic acid (JA) pathway is the main signal-transduction pathway induced by insect folivory. Mutant plants affected in the jasmonate pathway (18:0 and/or 16:0-oxylipin routes) were studied to assess the ef...
The impact ofArgopistes tsekooni Chen (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a herbivore, on Chinese privet, Ligustrum sinense Lout. (Scrophulariales: Oleaceae), an invasive shrub in the United States, was studied in Chin...
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 30571225) and The China National Science-Technology Support Program (Project No. 2006BAD08A08).
Although exogenous treatment of plants withjasmonic acid (JA) may result in induced responses similar to plant defences induced by herbivory, few studies have compared the details of insect herbivory and JA-mimicked...