individual publications

• academic article

  • Oxylipin channeling in Nicotiana attenuata: Lipoxygenase 2 supplies substrates for green leaf volatile production..  Plant, Cell and Environment.  33:2028-2040. 2010
  • An Ecological Analysis of the Herbivory-Elicited JA Burst and Its Metabolism: Plant Memory Processes and Predictions of the Moving Target Model.  PLoS One.  4. 2009
  • Shared signals - 'alarm calls' from plants increase apparency to herbivores and their enemies in nature.  Ecology Letters.  11:24-34. 2008
  • Co(i)-ordinating defenses: NaCOI1 mediates herbivore-induced resistance in Nicotiana attenuata and reveals the role of herbivore movement in avoiding defenses.  The Plant Journal.  51:79-91. 2007
  • Independently silencing two JAR family members impairs levels of trypsin proteinase inhibitors but not nicotine.  Planta.  226:159-167. 2007
  • Tuning the herbivore-induced ethylene burst: the role of transcript accumulation and ethylene perception in Nicotiana attenuata.  The Plant Journal.  51:293-307. 2007
  • Priming of plant defense responses in nature by airborne signaling between Artemisia tridentata and Nicotiana attenuata..  Oecologia.  148:280-292. 2006
  • Using 'mute' plants to translate volatile signals.  The Plant Journal.  45:275-291. 2006
  • Volatile signaling in plant-plant interactions: "Talking trees" in the genomics era.  Science.  311:812-815. 2006
  • A model ecological expression system and its tools.  Molecular Ecology.  13:981-995. 2004
  • Herbivore-induced plant vaccination. Part I. The orchestration of plant defenses in nature and their fitness consequences in the wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata..  The Plant Journal.  38:639-649. 2004
  • Individual variability in herbivore-specific elicitors from the plant's perspective.  Molecular Ecology.  13:2421-2433. 2004
  • Jasmonates and related compounds in plant-insect interactions.  Journal of Plant Growth Regulation.  23:238-245. 2004
  • Nicotine's defensive function in nature.  PLoS Biology.  2:1074-1080. 2004
  • Silencing of hydroperoxide lyase and allene oxide synthase reveals substrate and defense signaling crosstalk in Nicotiana attenuata.  The Plant Journal.  40:35-46. 2004
  • Silencing the jasmonate cascade: Induced plant defenses and insect populations.  Science.  305:665-668. 2004
  • Ueberlebensstrategien in freier Natur.  Genomexpress.  4:10-11. 2004
  • Antisense LOX expression increases herbivore performance by decreasing defense responses and inhibiting growth-related transcriptional reorganization in Nicotiana attenuata.  The Plant Journal.  36:794-807. 2003
  • Attracting friends to feast on foes: Engineering terpene emission to make crop plants more attractive to herbivore enemies..  Current Opinion in Biotechnology.  14:169-176. 2003
  • Ecological costs and benefits correlated with trypsin protease inhibitor production in Nicotiana attenuata.  Ecology.  84:79-90. 2003
  • Molecular interactions between the specialist herbivore Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and its natural host Nicotiana attenuata. VI. Microarray analysis reveals that most herbivore-specific transcriptional changes are mediated by fatty acid-amino acid conjugates.  Plant Physiology.  131:1894-1902. 2003
  • A knock-out mutation in allene oxide synthase results in male sterility and defective wound signal transduction in Arabidopsis due to a block in jasmonic acid biosynthesis.  The Plant Journal.  31:1-12. 2002
  • Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Nicotiana attenuata, a model ecological expression system.  Chemoecology.  12:177-183. 2002
  • Manduca quinquemaculata's optimization of intra-plant oviposition to predation, food quality, and thermal constraints.  Ecology.  83:2346-2354. 2002
  • Plant responses to insect herbivory: The emerging molecular analysis..  Annual Review of Genetics.  53:299-328. 2002
  • Plant-mediated tritrophic interactions and biological pest control.  AgBiotech News and Information.  4:1-7. 2002
  • Volatile signaling in plant-plant-herbivore interactions: What is real?.  Current Opinion in Plant Biology.  5:351-354. 2002
  • Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature..  Science.  291:2141-2144. 2001
  • Ecophysiological comparison of direct and indirect defenses in Nicotiana attenuata. .  Oecologia.  124:408-417. 2001
  • Merging molecular and ecological approaches in plant-insect interactions..  Current Opinion in Plant Biology.  4:351-358. 2001
  • Molecular interactions between the specialist herbivore Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and its natural host Nicotiana attenuata. III. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates in herbivore oral secretions are necessary and sufficient for herbivore-specific plant responses.  Plant Physiology.  125:711-717. 2001
  • Circumvention of prey defense by a predator: ant lion vs. ant.  Proceedings at the National Academy of Science USA.  90:6716-6720. 1993
  • Squirting and refilling: the dynamics of p--benzoquinone production in defensive glands of Diploptera punctata.  Journal of Chemical Ecology.  16:2823-2834. 1990

• article

  • The wars between plants and predators 1988

• conference poster

  • The emission of herbivore-induced phytochemicals and their effect on the insect community of Nicotiana attenuata in natural populations 2002
  • The emission of herbivore-induced phytochemicals and their effect on the insect community of Nicotiana attenuata in natural populations 2001