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Keywords: proteinase inhibitors, classification into families of related proteins, evolution of function, protein families that contain proteinase inhibitors, variation in sequence within a family, three-dimensional structures and interaction of inhibitors with target enzymes, proteinase of different classes of targets of inhibitors, inhibitors of serine proteinases, inhibitors of cysteine proteinases, inhibitors of aspartyl proteinases, inhibitors of metallo-proteinases, insect digestive proteinases and protein digestion in phytophagous insects, passage of food through the intestinal tract, compartmentalization of the midgut, recirculation of digestive enzymes, occurrence of multiple proteinases in phytophagous insects, molecular genetics of insect digestive proteinases, in vitro inhibition of insect proteinases by proteinaceous inhibitors, canonical inhibitors of serine proteinases, cystatins, bioassay using proteinase inhibitors, correlation of proteinase inhibitors with host-plant resistance and interaction with other

proteinaceous resistance factors, induced proteinase inhibitors and host-plant resistance, insect adaption or resistance to proteinase inhibitors, plants transformed with proteinase inhibitor genes