Contact chemosensation of phytochemicals by insect herbivores

Contact chemosensation, or tasting, enables insect herbivores to identify nonvolatile metabolites in complex mixtures present in plants. The interplay of primary and secondary plant metabolites with gustatory receptors is outlined.

• Publication year

  2017

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  Natural product reports (Print)

• Publication date

  2017-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1039/c7np00002bPMID 28485430PMCID 5436039
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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