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2020
Brochu, K. K., M. T. van Dyke, N. J. Milano, J. D. Petersen, S. H. McArt, B. A. Nault, A. Kessler, and B. N. Danforth. 2020. Pollen defenses negatively impact foraging and fitness in a generalist bee (Bombus impatiens: Apidae). Scientific Reports 10:1–12.
Brzozowski, L. J., J. Gardner, M. P. Hoffmann, A. Kessler, A. A. Agrawal, and M. Mazourek. 2020. Attack and aggregation of a major squash pest: Parsing the role of plant chemistry and beetle pheromones across spatial scales. Journal of Applied Ecology 57:1442–1451.
Burdon, R. C. F., R. A. Raguso, R. J. Gegear, E. C. Pierce, A. Kessler, and A. L. Parachnowitsch. 2020. Scented nectar and the challenge of measuring honest signals in pollination. Journal of Ecology:1365-2745.13432.
Howard, M. M., J. Kao‐Kniffin, and A. Kessler. 2020a. Shifts in plant‐microbe interactions over community succession and their effects on plant resistance to herbivores. New Phytologist:nph.16430.
Howard, M. M., C. A. Muñoz, J. Kao-Kniffin, and A. Kessler. 2020b. Soil Microbiomes From Fallow Fields Have Species-Specific Effects on Crop Growth and Pest Resistance. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:1171.
Kalske, A., and A. Kessler. 2020. Population‐wide shifts in herbivore resistance strategies over succession. Ecology.
Kessler, A., and A. Chautá. 2020. The ecological consequences of herbivore-induced plant responses on plant–pollinator interactions. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 4:33–43.
Smith, M. L., C. J. Kingwell, K. Böröczky, and A. Kessler. 2020. Colony‐level chemical profiles do not provide reliable information about colony size in the honey bee. Ecological Entomology:een.12841.
Del Valle, I., T. M. Webster, H.-Y. Cheng, J. E. Thies, A. Kessler, M. K. Miller, Z. T. Ball, K. R. MacKenzie, C. A. Masiello, J. J. Silberg, and J. Lehmann. 2020. Soil organic matter attenuates the efficacy of flavonoid-based plant-microbe communication. Science Advances 6:eaax8254.
2019
Kalske, A., K. Shiojiri, A. Uesugi, Y. Sakata, K. Morrell, and A. Kessler. 2019. Insect Herbivory Selects for Volatile-Mediated Plant-Plant Communication. Current Biology 29:3128-3133.e3.
Mutyambai, D. M., E. Bass, T. Luttermoser, K. Poveda, C. A. O. Midega, Z. R. Khan, and A. Kessler. 2019. More Than “Push” and “Pull”? Plant-Soil Feedbacks of Maize Companion Cropping Increase Chemical Plant Defenses Against Herbivores. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7. 217
Paudel, B. R., A. Kessler, M. Shrestha, J. L. Zhao, and Q. Li. 2019. Geographic isolation, pollination syndromes, and pollinator generalization in Himalayan Roscoea spp. (Zingiberaceae). Ecosphere 10. e02943
Uesugi, A., R. Johnson, and A. Kessler. 2019. Context‐dependent induction of allelopathy in plants under competition. Oikos 128:1492–1502.
2018
Kessler A. 2018. Introduction to a special feature issue–New insights into plant volatiles. New Phytologist 220 (3), 655-658
Kessler A., Kalske A. 2018. Plant Secondary Metabolite Diversity and Species Interactions. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 49: 115-138. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110617-062406
Wilson, J.K., Woods, H.A. & Kessler, A. 2018. High levels of abiotic noise in volatile organic compounds released by a desert perennial: implications for the evolution and ecology of airborne chemical communication. Oecologia. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4225-0
Smeda, JR, AL Schilmiller, TA Anderson, S Ben-Mahmoud, DE Ullman, TM Chappell, A Kessler, MA Mutschler. 2018. Combination of Acylglucose QTL Reveals Additive and Epistatic Genetic Interactions and Impacts Insect Oviposition and Virus Infection. Molecular Breeding 38:3. doi.org/10.1007/s11032-017-0756-z
Zwetsloot MJ., Kessler A., Bauerle TL. 2018 Phenolic root exudate and tissue compounds vary widely among temperate forest tree species and have contrasting effects on soil microbial respiration. New Phytologist 218: 530-541. doi.org/10.1111/nph.15041
Howard M., Kalske A. Kessler A. 2018. Eco-evolutionary processes affecting plant-herbivore interactions during early community succession. Oecologia 187:547-559. doi.org/10.1007/s0044
2017
Glaum P., Kessler A. 2017. Herbivore-Induced Pollinator Limitation: Functional reductions in pollination services and their surprising potential in mutualist communities. Nature Communications 8(1). DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-02072-4
Junker RR, Kuppler J, Amo L, et al. 2017. Covariation and phenotypic integration in chemical communication displays: biosynthetic constraints and eco-evolutionary implications. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.14505
Kersch-Becker MF, Kessler A, Thaler JS. 2017. Plant defences limit herbivore population growth by changing predator-prey interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284:20171120. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1120
Kessler A. 2017. Plant Defences against Herbivore Attack. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp 1–11
Lim M, McBride MB, Kessler A. 2017. Arsenic Bioaccumulation by Eruca sativa Is Unaffected by Intercropping or Plant Density. Water, Air, Soil Pollution 228:364. doi: 10.1007/s11270-017-3544-9
Morrell K, Kessler A . 2017. Plant communication in a widespread goldenrod: keeping herbivores on the move. Functional Ecology 31:1049–1061. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12793
Smeda JR, Schilmiller AL, Kessler A, Mutschler MA. 2017. Combination of QTL affecting acylsugar chemistry reveals additive and epistatic genetic interactions to increase acylsugar profile diversity. Molecular Breeding 37:104. doi: 10.1007/s11032-017-0690-0
Uesugi A, Connallon T, Kessler A, Monro K. 2017. Relaxation of herbivore-mediated selection drives the evolution of genetic covariances between plant competitive and defense traits. Evolution 71:1700–1709. doi: 10.1111/evo.13247
2016
Kessler A. 2016. The geographic mosaic of plant chemistry and its effects on community and population genetic diversity. New Phytologist 212(1):8-10. DOI: 10.1111/nph.1413
Kessler A. 2016. Inducible plant defences and the environmental context. Functional Ecology 30(11):1738-1739. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12726
Leckie B.M., D’Ambrosio D.A., Chappell T.M., Halitschke R., De Jong D.M., Kessler A., Kennedy G.G. and Mutschler M.A. 2016. Differential and Synergistic Functionality of Acylsugars in Suppressing Oviposition by Insect Herbivores. PLoS ONE 11: e0153345. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153345
Uesugi A. and Kessler A. 2016. Herbivore release drives parallel patterns of evolutionary divergence in invasive plant phenotypes. Journal of Ecology 104(3): 876-886. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12542
Uesugi A., Morrell K., Poelman E.H., Raaijmakers C.E. and Kessler A. 2016. Modification of plant-induced responses by an insect ecosystem engineer influences the colonization behaviour of subsequent shelter-users. Journal of Ecology 104(4): 1096-1105. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12587
Poelman E. and Kessler A. 2016. Keystone Herbivores and the Evolution of Plant Defenses. Trends in Plant Science 21(6): 477-485. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.007
Kessler A. 2016. Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant volatiles. New Phytologist 209(4): 1333-1337. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13854
2015
Kessler A. 2015. The information landscape of plant constitutive and induced secondary metabolite production. Current Opinion in Insect Science 8: 47-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2015.02.002
Wilson, J. K., Kessler A. and Woods, H.A. 2015. Noisy Communication via Airborne Infochemicals, BioScience 65 (7): 667-677. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv062
Burdon, R.C.F, Raguso R.A., Kessler A., Parachnowitsch A.L. 2015. Spatiotemporal floral scent variation in Penstemon digitalis. Journal of Chemical Ecology 41: 641-650.
Raguso R.A., Agrawal A. A., Douglas A.E., Jander G., Kessler A., Poveda K. and Thaler J.S. 2014. The raison d’être of chemical ecology. Ecology 96(3): 617-630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1474.1
Rubin I., Ellner S.P., Kessler A. and Morell K. 2015. Informed herbivore movement and plant-plant communication determine the effects of induced plant resistance in an individual-based model. Journal of Animal Ecology 84(5): 1273-1285.
2014
Morrell, K. and Kessler A. 2014. The scent of danger – volatile-mediated information transfer and defence priming in plants. The Biochemist 36: 26-31
Leckie B.M., Halitschke R. De Jong D.M., Smeda J., Kessler A., and Mutschler M.A. 2014. Quantitative trait loci regulating the fatty acid profile of acylsugars in tomato. Molecular Breeding 34(3): 1201-1213. DOI 10.1007/s11032-014-0110-7.
Campbell S.A., Halitschke R., Thaler J.S. and Kessler A. 2014. Plant mating systems affect adaptive plasticity in response to herbivory. The Plant Journal 78 (3): 481-490. (cover article)
Heath J.J., Kessler A., Woebbe E., Cipollini D., and Stireman III J.O. 2014. Exploring plant defense theory in tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima. New Phytologist 202 (4): 1357-1370. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12755
Whitehead S.R., Reid E., Joseph Sapp J., Poveda K., Anne M. Royer A.M., Posto A.L. and Kessler A. 2014. A specialist herbivore uses chemical mimicry to overcome the defenses of an ant-plant mutualism. PloS ONE 9(7): e102604.
Emmett B., Nelson E.B., Kessler A., and Bauerle T.L. 2014. Fine-root system development and susceptibility to pathogen colonization. Planta 239(2): 325-340. DOI:10.1007/s00425-013-1989-7>
2013
DeLeon S., Halitschke R., Hames R.S., Kessler A., DeVoogd T.J., and Dhondt A.A. 2013. The Effect of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on the Song of Two Passerine Species. PLoS ONE 8 (9): 10.1371/journal.pone.0073471
Uesugi A. Poelman E. and A. Kessler. 2013. A test of genotypic variation in specificity of herbivore-induced responses in Solidago altissima L. (Asteraceae). Oecologia 173(4): 1387-1396
Bode R.F., R. Halitschke, and A. Kessler. 2013. Herbivore Damage-induced Production and Specific Anti-digestive Function of Serine and Cysteine Protease Inhibitors in Tall Goldenrod, Solidago altissima L. (Asteraceae). Planta 237: 1287-1296. DOI 10.1007/s00425- 013-1845-9.
Uesugi A. and A. Kessler. 2013. Herbivore-exclusion drives the evolution of plant competitiveness via increased allelopathy. New Phytologist 198: 916-924
Campbell S. and A. Kessler. 2013. Plant mating system transitions drive the macroevolution of defense strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110: 3973-3978
Parachnowitsch A. L., R.C.F. Burdon, A. R. Raguso, and A. Kessler. 2013. Natural selection in floral volatile production in Penstemon digitalis: Highlighting the role of linalool. Plant Signaling & Behavior 8: 1-4
Campbell S., J. Thaler, and A. Kessler. 2013. Plant chemistry underlies herbivore-mediated inbreeding depression in nature. Ecology Letters 16: 252-260
del Campo M.L., R. Halitschke, S. M. Short, B. P. Lazzaro and A. Kessler. 2013. Dietary plant phenolic improves survival of bacterial infection in Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomologica Experimentalis et Applicata 146: 321-331.
2012
Poveda K. and A. Kessler. 2012. New Synthesis: Plant volatiles as functional cues in intercropping systems. Journal of Chemical Ecology 38: 1341.
Parachnowitsch A. L., C.M. Caruso, S.A. Campbell, and A. Kessler. 2012. Lobelia siphilitica plants that escape herbivory in time also have reduced latex production. PlosONE 7(5): E37745. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037745.
Parachnowitsch A. L., A. R. Raguso, and A. Kessler. 2012. Phenotypic selection to increase floral scent emission, but not flower size or colour in bee-pollinated Penstemon digitalis. New Phytologist 195 (3): 667-675.
Poveda K., M.I. Gómez, R. Halitschke, and A. Kessler. 2012. Overcompensating plants: their expression of resistance traits and effects on herbivore preference and performance. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 143 (3): 245-253. DOI: 10.1111/j.1570- 7458.2012.01256.x
Bode R.F., and A. Kessler. 2012. Herbivore Pressure on Goldenrod (Solidago altissima L., Asteraceae): Its Effects on Herbivore Resistance and Vegetative Reproduction. Journal of Ecology 100 (3): 795-801.
2011
Halitschke R., J. Hamilton, and A. Kessler. 2011. Herbivore-induced plant vaccination. Part III: Herbivore-specific elicitation of photosynthesis as a mechanism to compensate for herbivory. New Phytologist 191: 528-535.
Kessler A. and M. Heil. 2011. The multiple faces of indirect defenses and their agents of natural selection. Functional Ecology 25: 348-357
Kessler A., R. Halitschke, and K. Poveda. 2011. Herbivory-mediated pollinator limitation: Negative impacts of induced volatiles on plant-pollinator interactions. Ecology 92: 1769-1780.
2010
Parachnowitsch A. and A. Kessler. 2010. Pollinator-mediated natural selection in Penstemon digitalis. Plant Signaling &Behavior 5: 1688-1690.
Mooney K.A., R. Halitschke, A. Kessler, and A.A. Agrawal. 2010. Evolutionary tradeoffs in plants mediate the strength of trophic cascades. Science 327: 1642-1644
Johnson R.H., R. Halitschke and A. Kessler. 2010. Simultaneous analysis of tissue- and genotype-specific variation in Solidago altissima (Asteraceae) rhizome terpenoids, and the polyacetylene dehydromatricaria ester. Chemoecology 20: 255-264.
Poveda K., M.I. Gómez and A. Kessler. 2010. The enemy as ally: herbivore-induced increase in crop yield. Ecological Applications 20: 1787-1793.
Parachnowitsch A.L. and A. Kessler. 2010. Pollinators exert natural selection on flower size and floral display in Penstemon digitalis. New Phytologist 188: 393-402.
2000-2009
Kessler A. and R. Halitschke. 2009. Testing the potential for conflicting selection on floral chemical traits by pollinators and herbivores: Predictions and case study. Functional Ecology 23: 901-912. (Cover article)
Halitschke R., J.A. Stenberg, D. Kessler, A. Kessler, and I. T. Baldwin. 2008. Shared signals – “alarm calls” from plants increase apparency to herbivores and their enemies in nature. Ecology Letters 11:24-34
Kaplan I., R. Halitschke, A. Kessler, S. Sardanelli, and R. F. Denno. 2008. Effects of plant vascular archicture on aboveground-belowground induced responses to foliar and root herbivores in Nicotiana tabacum. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34:1349-1359.
Kaplan I., R. Halitschke, A. Kessler, B. J. Rehill, S. Sardanelli, and R. F. Denno. 2008. Physiological integration of roots and shoots in plant defense strategies links above- and belowground herbivory. Ecology Letters 11:841-851.
Kaplan I., R. Halitschke, A. Kessler, S. Sardenelli and R.F. Denno. 2008. Constitutive and induced defenses to herbivory in above- and belowground plant tissue. Ecology 89:392‑406.
Kessler A. and R. Halitschke. 2007. Specificity and complexity: The impact of herbivore-induced plant responses on arthropod community structure. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 10:409-414.
Kessler A., R. Halitschke, C. Diezel, and I. T. Baldwin. 2006. Priming of plant defense responses in nature by airborne signaling between Artemisia tridentata and Nicotiana attenuata. Oecologia 148:280-292.
Kessler A. and I. T. Baldwin. 2004. Herbivore-induced plant vaccination. Part I. The orchestration of plant defenses in nature and their fitness consequences in the wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata. Plant Journal 38:639-649. (Cover article)
Kessler A., R. Halitschke, and I. T. Baldwin. 2004. Silencing the jasmonate cascade: Induced plant defenses and insect populations. Science 305:665-668.
Kessler A., R. Halitschke, and I. T. Baldwin. 2004. Ueberlebensstrategien in freier Natur. Genomxpress 4:10-11.
Schmidt D. D., A. Kessler, D. Kessler, S. Schmidt, M. Lim, K. Gase, and I. T. Baldwin. 2004. Solanum nigrum: A model ecological expression system and its tools. Molecular Ecology 13:981-995.
Degenhardt J., J. Gershenzon, I. T. Baldwin, and A. Kessler. 2003. Attracting friends to feast on foes: Engineering terpene emission to make crop plants more attractive to herbivore enemies. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 14:169‑176. (Cover article)
Glawe G. A., J. A. Zavala, A. Kessler, N. M. Van Dam, and I. T. Baldwin. 2003. Ecological costs and benefits correlated with trypsin protease inhibitor production in Nicotiana attenuata. Ecology 84:79-90.
Baldwin I. T., A. Kessler, and R. Halitschke. 2002. Volatile signaling in plant-plant-herbivore interactions: What is real? Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5:351‑354.
Kessler A. and I. T. Baldwin. 2002. Manduca quinquemaculata‘s optimization of intra-plant oviposition to predation, food quality, and thermal constraints. Ecology 83:2346‑2354.
Kessler A. and I. T. Baldwin. 2002. Plant responses to insect herbivory: The emerging molecular analysis. Annual Review of Plant Biology 53:299‑328.
Kessler A. and I. T. Baldwin. 2002. Plant-mediated tritrophic interactions and biological pest control. AgBiotechNet 4:1‑7.
Baldwin I. T., R. Halitschke, A. Kessler, and U. Schittko. 2001. Merging molecular and ecological approaches in plant-insect interactions. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 4:351‑358.
Forstmeier W. and A. Kessler. 2001. Morphology and foraging behaviour of Siberian Phylloscopus warblers. Journal of Avian Biology 32:127‑138.
Kessler A. 2001. Der Feind meines Feindes ist mein Freund. Biologie in unserer Zeit 31:331‑332.
Kessler A. and I. T. Baldwin. 2001. Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature. Science 291:2141‑2144.
Halitschke R., A. Kessler, J. Kahl, A. Lorenz, and I. T. Baldwin. 2000. Ecophysiological comparison of direct and indirect defenses in Nicotiana attenuata. Oecologia 124:408‑417.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Howard M., Kaminsky L.M., Kessler A., Bell T. 2019. 4. Merging microbial and plant profiling to understand the impact of human-generated extreme environments on natural and agricultural systems . In: Advanced Techniques for Studying Microorganisms in Extreme Environments, DOI: 10.1515/9783110525786-004
Raguso R.R, A. Kessler. 2017. Speaking in chemical tongues: Decoding the language of plant volatiles. In: M. Gagliano, J.C. Ryan, P. Vieira, (eds.) The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature, University of Minne sota Press. Pages 283-314
Kessler A., K. Shiojiri. 2016. Plant secondary metabolites as an information channel mediating community-wide interactions. In: G. Arimura, M. Maffei, (eds.) Plant Specialized Metabolism: Genomics, Biochemistry and Biological Functions, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Pages 283-314
Kessler A., K. Poveda and E. Poelman. 2012. Induced plant responses and Arthropod community dynamics. In: P. Barbosa, D. L. Letourneau, A. Agrawal (eds.) Insect Outbreaks Revisited, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, UK. pp. 91-112
Kessler A. and K. Morrell. 2010. Plant volatile signaling: Multitrophic interactions in the headspace. In: A. Herrmann (ed.), The Chemistry and Biology of Volatiles. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 95-122.
Kessler A. 2009. Plant defense against herbivorous insects. In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, New York, pp. 286-289
Kessler A. 2009. Communicating plants: Ecological consequences of induced responses to herbivory. In: A. Schmitt (ed.), Induced resistance in plants against insect and diseases IOBC/WPRS Bull. 44, pp. 83-92.
Kessler A. 2006. Plant-insect interactions in the era of consolidation in biological sciences. In: M. Dicke and W. Takken (eds.), Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem. Springer, Wageningen, pp. 19-37.
Invited book reviews
Kessler A. 2019. Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences. Second Edition (By Paul A. Keddy) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 94: 299-300.
Kessler A. 2019. Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions. Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation. (By John R. Wilson, F. Dane Panetta, and Cory Lindgren) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 94: 93.
Kessler A. 2017. Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack (Dale R. Walters) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 92: 338-339.
Kessler A. 2017. Stress Responses in Plants: Mechanisms of Toxicity and Tolerance (Bhumi Nath Tripathi and Maria Müller) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 92: 339.
Kessler A. 2016. Leaf Defense (Edward E. Farmer) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 91: 101-102.
Kessler A. 2011. Plant Defense: Warding off attack by pathogens, herbivore, and parasitic plants (Dale R. Walters) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 86: 356-357.
Kessler A. 2009. The ecological world view (Charles Krebs) book review. Quarterly Review in Biology 84: 88-89.