Biochemical Defense Mechanisms

Brattsten L. B. (1979) Biochemical defense mechanisms in herbivores against plant allelochemicals. In Herbivores, Their Interaction with Secondary Plant Metabolites, eds G. A. Rosenthal and D. H. Janzen, pp. 199-270. Academic Press, New York. 

Brattsten, L.B., Biochemical defense mechanisms in herbivores against plant allelochemicals, in Herbivores Their interaction with secondary plant metabolites, Rosenthal, G.A. and Janzen, D.H., Eds., New York Academic Press, 1979, p. 199. 

Clearly the tobacco budworm is a highly adaptable species that possesses an impressive arsenal of natural physiological and biochemical defense mechanisms which can be brought to bear against a broad spectrum of xenobiotic compounds. Furthermore, recent laboratory studies have shown that the genetic traits of the pest also favor the development of significant levels of resistance to pyrethroids (36.371 when it is subjected to selection pressure. 

COTGREAVE, I.A., MOLDEUS, P. and ORRENIUS, S. (1988) Host biochemical defense mechanisms against prooxidants. Annu. Rev. Pharmac. Toxicol., 28, 189. 

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