Publisher's Synopsis
This work aims to provide the basic principles associated with insect-plant interactions, emphasizing the mechanism of host plant selection involving chemical ecology in insect-plant interactions, sensory perception in phytophagous insects, the nutritional influence on reproduction, the role of weeds as reservoirs of insects, the nature of insect-weed-crop interactions, mechanisms of resistance in plants to insect attack, role of insects as pollinators, and gall dynamics.