Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects (Hardcover)

Preface.- Acknowledgement.- 1. Resistance in trees to insects - An overview of mechanisms and interactions.- 2. Mechanisms of resistance in conifers and bark beetle attack strategies.- 3. Mechanisms of resistance in trees to defoliators.- 4. Mechanisms of Resistance in Conifers against shoot infesting insects. The case of the white pine weevil Pissodes strobi (Peck): (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).- 5. Host tree resistance to wood-boring insects.- 6. Plant resistance against gall-forming insects: the role of hypersensititiy.- 7. The resistance of hybrid willows to specialist and generalist herbivores and pathogens: the potential role of secondary chemistry and parent host plant status.- 8. Deploying pest resistance in genetically-limited forest plantations: developing ecologically-based strategies for managing risk.- 9. Deployment of tree resistance to insects in short-rotation.- 10. Strategies for Deployment of Insect Resistant Ornamental Plants.- 11. Possibilities to utilize tree resistance to insects in forest pest management in central and western Europe.- 12. Deployment of tree resistance to pests in Asia.- 13. Using Resistance in Tropical Forest Plantations.- Index.