Plant-animal interactions

Hay ME, Fenical W (1992) Chemical mediation of seaweed-herbivore interactions. In John DM, Hawkins SS, Price JH (eds) Plant-animal interactions in the marine benthos. Systematics Association Special Volume I. Clarendon, Oxford, pp 319-337 Hay ME, Fenical W (1996) Chemical ecology and marine biodiversity insights and products from the sea. Oceanography 9 10-20... 

Challenger F, Simpson M (1948) Studies on biological methylation. Part 12. A precursor of the dimethyl sulphide evolved by Polysiphonia fastigiata. Dimethyl-2-carboxyethylsulphonium hydroxide and its salts. J Chem Soc 3 1591-1597 Charlson RJ, Lovelock JE, Andreae MO, Warren SG (1987) Oceanic phytoplankton, atmospheric sulphur, cloud albedo and climate. Nature 326 655-661 Coley PD, Aide T (1991) Comparison of herbivory and plant defenses in temperate and tropical broad-leaved forests. In Price P, Lewinsohn T, Fernandes G, Benson W (eds) Plant-animal interactions evolutionary ecology in tropical and temperate regions. Wileys, New York, pp 25 19... 

Ralphs, M. H., Olsen, J. D., Pfister, J. A., and Manners, G. D. (1988). Plant-animal interactions in larkspur poisoning in catde.Journal of Animal Science 66,2334-2342. 

Steneck, R. S., Plant-herbivore coevolution a reappraisal from the marine realm and its fossil record, in Plant-Animal Interactions in the Marine Benthos, John, D. M., Hawkins, S. S., and Price, J. H., Eds., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992, 477. 

Coley, P. D. and Aide, T. M., Comparison of herbivory and plant defenses in temperate and tropical broad-leaved forests, in Plant-Animal Interactions Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions, Price, P. W., Ed., John Wiley Sons, Ithaca, NY, 1991. 

Crawley, M. J., Herbivory the Dynamics of Plant-Animal Interactions. Studies in Ecology, Vol. 10, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1983. 

John, D.M., Hawkins, S.J., and Price, J.H., Plant-animal interactions in the marine benthos, in The Systematics Association, Special Vol. 46, Oxford Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK, 1992. 

Numerous iridoids are involved in plant-animal interactions e.g. the defensive function of this type of compounds in ants. From the pharmacological standpoint, the applications of this class of compounds are rather limited. Some iridoids have anti-inflammatory activity, which is weak by the oral route and stronger by topical application e.g. 1 mg of aucubin, verbenalin, or loganin have an activity almost similar to that of 0.5 mg of indomethacin on the TPA-induced mouse ear edema. Some are ingredients in various forms of allopathic medications (valerian), others are typically, phytotherapeutic products (devil s claw, olive tree). Others receive attention for their non-pharmaceutical applications (yellow gentian). The hepatoprotective effects of picrosides I and II from kutkin, the crude active fraction in Picrorhiza kurroa is well known and documented. 

Biological Functions of Quinones in Plant-Animal Interactions Naphthoquinones Biosynthesis of Naphthoquinones Distribution of Naphthoquinones Among Higher Plants Biological Functions of Naphthoquinones Anthraquinones... 

Feeny, P., Chemical constraints on the evolution of swallowtail butterflies, in Plant-Animal Interactions. Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Perspectives (P. W. Price, T. M. Lewinsohn, W. W. Benson, and G. W. Fernandes, eds.), 315-340, Wiley, New York, 1991. 

Iridoid monoterpenes are involved in a number of plant-animal interactions (Bowers, 1988, 1991 Rimpler, 1991). Many insects sequester iridoid monoterpenes in a variety of tissues, including all stages of the insect and the silk produced. Uptake of iridoids may be selective or nonse-lective they may be modified before or after uptake. These compounds also are excreted in the frass in many instances (Rimpler, 1991). 

Plant-Animal Interactions Plant allomones Kairomones Synomones Insect semiochemicals... 

Plant-Animal Interactions in the Marine Benthos (1992)t Edited byD.M. John, S.J. Hawkins and J.H. Price... 

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