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Turlings, Ted
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Turlings, Ted
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Professeur.e ordinaire
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ted.turlings@unine.ch
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- PublicationAccès libreField evidence for the role of plant volatiles induced by caterpillar-derived elicitors in the prey location behavior of predatory social wasps1. One assumed function of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) is to attract natural enemies of the inducing herbivores. Field evidence for this is scarce and often indirect. Also, the assumption that elicitors in insect oral secretions that trigger the volatile emissions are essential for attraction of natural enemies has not yet been demonstrated under field conditions. 2. After observing social wasps removing caterpillars from maize plants in an agricultural field, we hypothesized that these wasps use HIPVs to locate their prey. To test this, we conducted an experiment that simultaneously explored the importance of caterpillar oral secretions in the interaction. 3. We found that Spodoptera caterpillars placed on mechanically damaged plants treated with oral secretion were more likely to be attacked by wasps compared to caterpillars on plants that were only mechanically wounded. Both of the the latter treatments were considerably more attractive than plants that were only treated with oral secretion or left untreated. Subsequent analyses of headspace volatiles confirmed differences in emitted volatiles that likely account for the differential predation events across the treatments. 4. These findings highlight the importance of HIPVs in prey location by social wasps and provide evidence for the role that elicitors play in inducing attractive odor blends.
- PublicationAccès libreAphid and caterpillar feeding drive similar patterns of induced defences and resistance to subsequent herbivory in wild cotton(2023)
; ; ; ; ; - PublicationAccès libreBelowground and aboveground herbivory differentially affect the transcriptome in roots and shoots of maize(2022-7-22)
; ; ; ; Plants recognize and respond to feeding by herbivorous insects by upregulating their local and systemic defenses. While defense induction by aboveground herbivores has been well studied, far less is known about local and systemic defense responses against attacks by belowground herbivores. Here, we investigated and compared the responses of the maize transcriptome to belowground and aboveground mechanical damage and infestation by two well-adapted herbivores: the soil-dwelling western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and the leaf- chewing fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). In responses to both herbivores, maize plants were found to alter local transcription of genes involved in phytohormone signaling, primary and secondary metabolism. Induction by real herbivore damage was considerably stronger and modified the expression of more genes than mechanical damage. Feeding by the corn rootworm had a strong impact on the shoot transcriptome, including the activation of genes involved in defense and development. By contrast, feeding by the fall armyworm induced only few transcriptional changes in the roots. In conclusion, feeding by a leaf chewer and a root feeder differentially affects the local and systemic defense of maize plants. Besides revealing clear differences in how maize plants respond to feeding by these specialized herbivores, this study reveals several novel genes that may play key roles in plant–insect interactions and thus sets the stage for in depth research into the mechanism that can be exploited for improved crop protection.