CARDEVOL - New ERC Starting Grant for Tobias Zust
Although plants produce chemical toxins as a defence against insect herbivores, herbivores frequently evolve resistance to such chemicals. The CARDEVOL (CARDenolide EVOLution) projects aims to understand the causes and consequences of plant evolving new chemical defences as a strategy to prevent herbivore resistance. By quantifiying costs and benefits of toxin production for the plant, and exploring tolerance mechanism of insects, CARDEVOL will provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary evaluation of chemically mediated plant-insect coevolution.
Tobias Zuest - is a member of the Swiss Plant Science Web - and working at the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern.
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ERC Starting Grants recipients 2020, https://erc.europa.eu/news/StG-recipients-2020