Volatile Profiles and Resistance to Herbivory in Eastern Hemlock
Eastern hemlock hosts the hemlock woolly adelgid, an introduced sap-feeding insect that causes rapid deterioration of the host. Like most conifers, eastern hemlock produces a variety of constitutive and induced defenses, primarily terpenoids. To explore the relationship of terpenoid defenses with ad...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2014
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/104 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=masters_theses_2 |