Includes bibliographical references and index

Plants recognize herbivorous insects by complex signalling networks / Gustavo Bonaventure -- Herbivore oral secretions are the first line of protection against plant-induced defences / Gary W. Felton, Seung Ho Chung, Maria Gloria Estrada Hernandez, Joe Louis, Michelle Peiffer and Donglan Tian -- insect detoxification and sequestration strategies / David G. Heckel -- Plant semiochemicals: perception and behavioural responses by insects / Andreas Reinecke and Monika Hilker -- Plant transcriptomic responses to herbivory / Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer, Richard O. Musser and Heiko Vogel -- Transcriptome responses in herbivorous insects towards host plant and toxin feeding / Heiko Vogel, Richard O. Musser and Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera -- Quantitative genetics and genomics of plant resistance to insects / Daniel J. Kliebenstein -- Costs of resistance in plants: from theory to evidence / Don Cipollini, Dale Walters and Claudia Voelckel -- Plant-mediated interactions among insects within a community ecological perspective / Erik H. Poelman and Marcel Dicke -- The altitudinal niche-breadth hypothesis in insect-plant interactions / Sergio Rasmann, Nadir Alvarez and Loïc Pellissier -- Revisiting plant-herbivore co-evolution in the molecular biology era / Georg Jander.