Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens.
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Hughes, CL
Published in: Environ Health Perspect
June 1988
Plants have physical and chemical mechanisms for defense from attack by animals. Phytochemical defenses that protect plants from attack by insects include antifeedants, insecticides, and insect growth regulators. Phytochemical options exist by which plants can modulate the fertility of the other major group of plant predators, vertebrate herbivores, and thereby reduce cumulative attacks by those herbivores. The success of such a defense depends upon phytochemical mimicry of vertebrate reproductive hormones. Phytoestrogens do mimic reproductive hormones and are proposed to be defensive substances produced by plants to modulate the fertility of herbivores.
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Environ Health Perspect
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0091-6765
Publication Date
June 1988
Volume
78
Start / End Page
171 / 174
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Toxicology
- Plant Preparations
- Plant Physiological Phenomena
- Phytoestrogens
- Isoflavones
- Fertility
- Estrogens, Non-Steroidal
- Estrogens
- Animals, Domestic
- Animals
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Hughes, C. L. (1988). Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens. Environ Health Perspect, 78, 171–174. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8878171
Hughes, C. L. “Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens.” Environ Health Perspect 78 (June 1988): 171–74. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8878171.
Hughes CL. Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens. Environ Health Perspect. 1988 Jun;78:171–4.
Hughes, C. L. “Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens.” Environ Health Perspect, vol. 78, June 1988, pp. 171–74. Pubmed, doi:10.1289/ehp.8878171.
Hughes CL. Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens. Environ Health Perspect. 1988 Jun;78:171–174.
Published In
Environ Health Perspect
DOI
ISSN
0091-6765
Publication Date
June 1988
Volume
78
Start / End Page
171 / 174
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Toxicology
- Plant Preparations
- Plant Physiological Phenomena
- Phytoestrogens
- Isoflavones
- Fertility
- Estrogens, Non-Steroidal
- Estrogens
- Animals, Domestic
- Animals