Front Cover; Advances in Botanical Research; ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH; Advances in Botanical ResearchHow plants communicate with their biotic environmentVolume EditorGuillaume BecardLaboratoire ...; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; One -- Plant-PlantCommunication; One -- From the Lab Bench to the Forest: Ecology and Defence Mechanisms of Volatile-Mediated 'Talking Trees'; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PLANTS BIOSYNTHESIZE AND EMIT VOLATILE ORGANIC CHEMICALS IN RESPONSE TO HERBIVORY: HOW DO PLANT-PLANT SIGNALS EMERGE?; 3. LAB-BASED ADVANCES IN PLANT-PLANT COMMUNICATION

4. THE EVOLUTION OF PLANT-PLANT SIGNALS: HAS PLANT-PLANT SIGNALLING SELECTED FOR EMISSION AND PERCEPTION OF PARTICULAR VOLATIL ...5. THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PLANT-PLANT SIGNALS: DO PLANT-PLANT SIGNALS MATTER COMPARED TO OTHER TYPES OF DEFENCE?; REFERENCES; Two -- Allelopathy and the Role of Allelochemicals in Plant Defence; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PLANT DEFENCE AND THE ROLE OF ALLELOCHEMICALS; 2.1 Allelochemical Localization and Release Into the Environment; 3. CLASSIFICATION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES; 3.1 Phenolic Compounds and Their Derivatives; 3.2 Terpenoids; 3.3 Alkaloids

3.4 Hydroxamic Acids of Benzoxazinoids: An Agronomic Case Study4. ALLELOCHEMICAL MODE OF ACTION; 4.1 Membrane Permeability; 4.2 Water and Nutrient Uptake; 4.3 Respiration; 4.4 Photosynthesis; 4.5 Protein and Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Growth Regulation; 5. LOCALIZATION AND TRANSPORT OF ALLELOCHEMICALS IN DONOR PLANTS; 5.1 Root Exudation of Allelochemicals; 5.2 Diffusion; 5.3 Vesicle Transport; 5.4 Ion Channels; 6. FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RELEASE OF ALLELOCHEMICALS FROM THE PLANT; 7. ROLE(S) OF ALLELOCHEMICALS IN THE RHIZOSPHERE, IN NEIGHBOURING PLANTS AND OTHER ORGANISMS

7.1 Tolerance to Allelochemicals8. METABOLIC PROFILING OF ALLELOCHEMICALS IN COMPLEX PLANT OR SOIL EXTRACTS OR MIXTURES; 9. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Three -- Communication Between Host Plants and Parasitic Plants; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE ORIGINAL LIFE CYCLE OF OBLIGATE ROOT PARASITIC PLANTS; 3. THE HOST-DEPENDENT SEED GERMINATION OF OBLIGATE ROOT PARASITIC PLANTS; 3.1 The Germination Stimulants; 3.2 The Key Components of the Strigolactone Signalling Pathway; 3.3 Towards a Rhizosphere Signalling Paradigm?; 4. THE HOST-DEPENDENT HAUSTORIUM DEVELOPMENT IN ROOT PARASITIC PLANTS

4.1 Facultative Orobanchaceae4.2 Obligate Orobanchaceae; 4.3 Haustorium Inducing Factors or How the Host Triggers Haustorium Formation; 5. HOST-PARASITE COMMUNICATIONS DURING AND AFTER HAUSTORIUM FORMATION; 6. HOST RESPONSE TO PARASITIC PLANT (BROOMRAPE) INFESTATION; 7. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Four -- Plant-Plant Communication Through Common Mycorrhizal Networks; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EVIDENCE OF INTERPLANT SIGNALLING VIA COMMON MYCORRHIZAL NETWORKS; 2.1 Background; 2.2 Experimental Challenges; 2.3 The Discovery of Common Mycorrhizal Networks-Based Signals; 2.4 Speed of Signal Transfer

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