Alina produced a manuscript based on earlier research in our lab on the tolerance of Miscanthus cultivars to grasshopper herbivory, She demonstrated that cultivars of this potentially invasive grass in protected areas vary in their response to herbivores. Her dissertation work on biotic resistance showed that grasshoppers may serve agents for biotic resistance of imported grasses through their selective feeding on exotic species over native species. This work shows that exotic grass cultivars which vary in morphology and color also vary in their resistance and tolerance to herbivory. See the article here.
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