2008 publications

Bradford, M.A., T. Gancos, and C.J. Frost. (2008) Slow-cycle effects of foliar herbivory alter nitrogen acquisition and population structure of soil fauna. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (in press).

Du, D., JA Winsor, M. Smith, A. DeNicco and AG Stephenson. 2008. Resistance and tolerance to herbivory changes with inbreeding and ontogeny in a wild gourd (Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 95: 84-92.

Felton, G. W. (2008) Caterpillar secretions and induced plant responses, Ch. 18. In Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory, pp.369-387. Schaller, A (ed.) Springer Science.

Frost, C. J. and M. D. Hunter (2008) Insect herbivores and their frass affect Quercus rubra leaf quality and subsequent early-stage litter decomposition dynamics. Oikos 117: 13-22.

Frost, C. J., M. C. Mescher, J. E. Carlson, and C. M. De Moraes. (2008) Plant defense priming against herbivores: getting ready for a different battle. Plant Physiology (in press).

Geib, S. M., T. Filley, P. Hatcher, K. Hoover, J. Carlson, M. Jimenez-Gasco, and M. Tien (2008) Rapid lignin degradation in wood-feeding insects. Science (in review).

Marden, J. H (2008) Quantitative and evolutionary biology of alternative splicing: how changing the mix of alternative transcripts affects phenotypic plasticity and reaction norms. Heredity100: 111-120.

Zhu-Salzman, K., Luthe, D. S., and Felton, G. W. (2008) Arthropod-inducible proteins: broad spectrum defenses against multiple herbivores. Plant Physiol. 146: 852-858.

Mohan, S., P.W.K. Ma, W. P. Williams, and D. S. Luthe (2008) A naturally occurring plant cystein protease possesses remarkable toxicity against insect pests and synergizes Bacillus thuringiensis toxin. PLoS One 3.

Mansfield, M. A., Jones, A. D., and Kuldau, G. A. (2008) Contamination of fresh and ensiled maize by multiple Penicillium mycotoxins. Phytopathology 98: 330-336.

Park, D.-S., Sayler, R. J., Hong, Y.-G., Nam, M.-H., and Yang, Y. (2008) A method for inoculation and evaluation of rice sheath blight disease. Plant Dis. 92: 25-29.

Plymale, R., M. J. Grove, D. Cox-Foster, N. Ostiguy, and K. Hoover. (2008) Plant-mediated alteration of the peritrophic matrix and baculovirus infection in lepidopteran larvae. J. Insect Physiol. (in press).

J. C. Vera, C.W. Wheat, H.W. Fescemyer, M. J. Frilander, D. L. Crawford, I. Hanski, J. H. Marden. (2008) Rapid transcriptome characterization for a non-model organism using 454 pyrosequencing. Mol. Ecol. 17: 1636–1647.

Yang, Y., Bailey, T.A., Zhou, X., Mei, C., Chen, J. (2008) Towards understanding the signal transduction of rice blast resistance. In Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease. Springer (in press).