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Keywords: definition of the problem, an overview of tritrophic interactions, evidence of effect of plant quality on third trophic level organization, compatability of host plant resistance with biological control, effects of host’s diet upon third-trophic-level organization, effects of plant natural products upon third-trophic-level organisms, the system, general details about the system, rational for antibiotically based host plant resistance, the tritrophic interaction, potential chemical bases of host plant resistance, dose-response relationships showing the relative abilities of rutin and tomatine in artificial diets to reduce growth of larval Heliothis zea and Spodoptera exigua, interaction of protein with phenolics, levels of various natural products within the leaflets of an average plant of a commercial variety of tomato, interaction of tomatine with phytosterols, compatibility of tomato plant natural products with parasitoids, general aspects of action of parasitoid on host, independent effects of nutrients and toxins on parasitoid, interactive effects of nutrients and toxins on the parasitoid, diagrammatic representation

of the effect of various phytochemicals on host-parasitoid relationship, compatibility of nutrients and toxins with biocontrol, recommendations about the use of host plant resistance with biocontrol, additional aspects of compatibility, compatibility with host pathogens, compatibility with insect pathogen, compatibility with human and animal health