Browsing by Author "Pereira Coutinho, Antonio Xavier"

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    • Inter-regional variation on leaf surface defenses in native and non-native Centaurea solstitialis plants 
      Sotes, Gastón J.; Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Montesinos, Daniel; Pereira Coutinho, Antonio Xavier; José Pelaez, Walter; Lopes, Susana; Pinho e Melo, Teresa M. V. D. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Plant chemical defenses can be qualitative (toxins) to face generalist herbivores and quantitative (digestibility reducers) to specialists. Trichomes can produce chemicals, but also acts as a quantitative defense and in ...