Plant Resistance to Arthropods

C. Michael Smith has served in research; teaching and administrative positions at Louisiana State University, the University of Idaho and Kansas State University, where he is presently a Professor of Entomology. He has conducted research on arthropod resistance in forages, soybean, rice and wheat for over 30 years, and is currently studying constitutive and expressed genes involved in cereal resistance to aphids. In 2002, he served as a Fulbright Lecturer and Research Scholar at the Czech Agricultural University in Prague.

Antixenosis - Adverse Effects of Resistance on Arthropod Behavior.- Antibiosis - Adverse Effects of Resistance on Arthropod Biology.- Tolerance - The Effect of Plant Growth Characters on Arthropod Resistance.- Locating Sources of Resistance.- Techniques to Measure Resistance.- Factors Affecting the Expression of Plant Resistance to Arthropods.- Inheritance of Arthropod Resistance.- Constitutive and Induced Resistance Genes.- Transgenic Arthropod Resistance.- Arthropod Biotypes.- Plant Resistance in Arthropod Pest Management Systems.