Biology, Eighth Edition (Raven)

Chapter 40: Plant Defense Responses

Learning Outcomes

• Know the physical and physiological adaptations that naturally protect plants against predation, invasion, and parasitism by other species.
• Name and describe the metabolic adaptations that protect some plants from various stresses.
• Describe why research on potential human benefits of secondary plant metabolites is difficult to perform.
• Explain the gene for gene hypothesis, and relate it to HR.
• Describe some examples of interspecies coevolution of mutually beneficial survival strategies.