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2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2011 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council

Overview

Marcel Dicke is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Insect Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Social Psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics centered on insect and plant interactions, including:

  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Insect Utilization and Effects
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Animal and Plant Science Education

Dicke has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notable among them are:

  • Joop J. A. van Loon
  • Erik H. Poelman
  • Berhane T. Weldegergis
  • Gerrit Gort
  • Alexander Haverkamp

The scientist's research findings have been published extensively in various venues. Their most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
  • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Pest Science
  • Plant Cell & Environment

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marcel Dicke are:

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Insect frass and exuviae to promote plant growth and health, 2022, Trends in Plant Science
  • Nutritional composition of black soldier fly larvae feeding on agro-industrial by-products, 2020, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
  • Next-generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • LEDs Make It Resilient: Effects on Plant Growth and Defense, 2020, Trends in Plant Science

Marcel Dicke has received recognition for their work through awards such as the Spinoza Prize awarded by the Dutch Research Council in 2007 and membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Insect-plant biology

    L. M. Schoonhoven;J. J. A. van Loon;Marcel Dicke

  • Ecology of infochemical use by natural enemies in a tritrophic context.

    Louise E. M. Vet;Marcel Dicke

  • The evolutionary context for herbivore-induced plant volatiles: beyond the "cry-for-help"

    Marcel Dicke;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Signal signature and transcriptome changes of Arabidopsis during pathogen and insect attack.

    Martin De Vos;Vivian R. Van Oosten;Remco M. P. Van Poecke;Johan A. Van Pelt

  • PLANT STRATEGIES OF MANIPULATING PREDATOR- PREY INTERACTIONS THROUGH ALLELOCHEMICALS: PROSPECTS FOR APPLICATION IN PEST CONTROL

    Marcel Dicke;Maurice W. Sabelis;Junji Takabayashi;Jan Bruin

  • Isolation and identification of volatile kairomone that affects acarine predator-prey interactions: involvement of host plant in its production.

    M. Dicke;T. A. van Beek;M. A. Posthumus;N. ben Dom

  • beta-Glucosidase: an elicitor of herbivore-induced plant odor that attracts host-searching parasitic wasps

    Letizia Mattiacci;Marcel Dicke;Maarten A. Posthumus

  • Multitrophic effects of herbivore-induced plant volatiles in an evolutionary context

    Marcel Dicke;Joop J.A. van Loon

  • How Plants Obtain Predatory Mites as Bodyguards

    Marcel Dicke;Maurice W. Sabelis

  • Nutritional value of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) and its suitability as animal feed – a review

    K.B. Barragan-Fonseca;K.B. Barragan-Fonseca;M. Dicke;J.J.A. van Loon

  • Genetic engineering of terpenoid metabolism attracts bodyguards to Arabidopsis.

    Iris F. Kappers;Asaph Aharoni;Asaph Aharoni;Teun W. J. M. van Herpen;Ludo L. P. Luckerhoff

  • Helping plants to deal with insects: the role of beneficial soil-borne microbes

    Ana Pineda;Si-Jun Zheng;Joop J.A. van Loon;Corné M.J. Pieterse

  • A conserved transcript pattern in response to a specialist and a generalist herbivore

    Philippe Reymond;Natacha Bodenhausen;Remco M.P. Van Poecke;Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

  • Plant-carnivore mutualism through herbivore-induced carnivore attractants.

    Junji Takabayashi;Marcel Dicke

  • Infochemical terminology: based on cost-benefit analysis rather than origin of compounds?

    M. Dicke;M.W. Sabelis

  • Chemical complexity of volatiles from plants induced by multiple attack

    Marcel Dicke;Joop J A van Loon;Roxina Soler

  • Plant interactions with microbes and insects: from molecular mechanisms to ecology

    Corné M.J. Pieterse;Marcel Dicke

  • Plant Interactions with Multiple Insect Herbivores: From Community to Genes

    Jeltje M Stam;Anneke Kroes;Yehua Li;Rieta Gols

  • Rewiring of the Jasmonate Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis during Insect Herbivory.

    Adriaan Verhage;Ido Vlaardingerbroek;Ciska Raaymakers;Nicole M. Van Dam

  • Volatile herbivore-induced terpenoids in plant-mite interactions: Variation caused by biotic and abiotic factors.

    Junji Takabayashi;Marcel Dicke;Maarten A. Posthumus

  • Local and Systemic Production of Volatile Herbivore-induced Terpenoids: Their Role in Plant-carnivore Mutualism

    Marcel Dicke

  • Jasmonic Acid and Herbivory Differentially Induce Carnivore-Attracting Plant Volatiles in Lima Bean Plants

    Marcel Dicke;Rieta Gols;Daniel Ludeking;Maarten A. Posthumus

  • Insect Plant Biology

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Frequent Co-Authors

Joop J. A. van Loon
Joop J. A. van Loon Wageningen University & Research
Erik H. Poelman
Erik H. Poelman Wageningen University & Research
Louise E. M. Vet
Louise E. M. Vet Wageningen University & Research
Rieta Gols
Rieta Gols Wageningen University & Research
Jeffrey A. Harvey
Jeffrey A. Harvey Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Junji Takabayashi
Junji Takabayashi Kyoto University
Corné M. J. Pieterse
Corné M. J. Pieterse Utrecht University
Harro J. Bouwmeester
Harro J. Bouwmeester University of Amsterdam
Maurice W. Sabelis
Maurice W. Sabelis University of Amsterdam
Maarten A. Jongsma
Maarten A. Jongsma Wageningen University & Research

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