Humans and their Environments
The world is not colored green, but L-dopa, cocaine and caffeine. AND, biodiversity prospecting.
Lecture 21 September 2022
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Janzen,1979plantdefense.pdf
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Pooh says to Piglet re Tigger
all plants have defenses
beasts, drink and poison
impenetrable defenses?
Latin binomials
satiation
attack
behavioral defenses
behavioral defenses
hard defenses
hard defenses
hard defenses
snake carnivory
spines
cacti
acacia thorns
elephants and acacia thorns
trichomes
hooked trichomes
hooked trichomes
wood
secondary compounds
marijuana
poison ivy
hemlock
coffee
tea
pyrethrin
market drugs
cardiac glycosides
latex
avoidance by horses
avoidance by horses
avoidance by horses
aposematic colors
aposematic colors
aposematic beetle
Tetraopes
Batesian mimics
Mullerian mimics
rubber
rubber tapping
fig tree latex
the art of herbivory
monarch chef
chewing gum
chewing gum
turpentine
turpentine
turpentine location
turpentine defense
microscope slide mounts
other functions
self-sealing
amber
mummies
tanning hides
tannins where are?
tannins where are?
persimmons
green bananas
heartwood
The piano
sapwood nutrients
rotting logs
persistent heartwood
rotten cores
inducible defenses
inducible defenses