Published by Oxford University Press [2006] on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.
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Preface to PhloemInsect Interaction
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The review articles presented here were invited from keynote speakers at the session on PhloemInsect Interaction at the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain 2005. The session was generously supported by the SEB, the Journal of Experimental Botany, and Syngenta.
The interaction between sap-feeding herbivores (such as aphids) and plants is unusual since it is dominated by a single plant cell type, the