Interactions Between Western Tent Caterpillars and Wild Rose: A Test of Some General Plant Herbivore Hypotheses

10.2307/4028 ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith H. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Tent Caterpillars ◽  
Plant Herbivore

scholarly journals Disentangling transcriptional responses in plant defense against arthropod herbivores

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Garcia ◽  
M. Estrella Santamaria ◽  
Isabel Diaz ◽  
Manuel Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Networks ◽  
Pieris Rapae ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Plant Response ◽  
Plant Responses ◽  
Transcriptional Responses ◽  
Crop Species ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Plant Herbivore

AbstractThe success in the response of a plant to a pest depends on the regulatory networks that connect plant perception and plant response. Meta-analyses of transcriptomic responses are valuable tools to discover novel mechanisms in the plant/herbivore interplay. Considering the quantity and quality of available transcriptomic analyses, Arabidopsis thaliana was selected to test the ability of comprehensive meta-analyses to disentangle plant responses. The analysis of the transcriptomic data showed a general induction of biological processes commonly associated with the response to herbivory, like jasmonate signaling or glucosinolate biosynthesis. However, an uneven induction of many genes belonging to these biological categories was found, which was likely associated with the particularities of each specific Arabidopsis-herbivore interaction. A thorough analysis of the responses to the lepidopteran Pieris rapae and the spider mite Tetranychus urticae highlighted specificities in the perception and signaling pathways associated with the expression of receptors and transcription factors. This information was translated to a variable alteration of secondary metabolic pathways. In conclusion, transcriptomic meta-analysis has been revealed as a potent way to sort out relevant physiological processes in the plant response to herbivores. Translation of these transcriptomic-based analyses to crop species will permit a more appropriate design of biotechnological programs.

scholarly journals Exotic plants accumulate and share herbivores yet dominate communities via rapid growth

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Warwick J. Allen ◽  
Lauren P. Waller ◽  
Barbara I. P. Barratt ◽  
Ian A. Dickie ◽  
Jason M. Tylianakis
Keyword(s):  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Exotic Plants ◽  
Apparent Competition ◽  
Indirect Interactions ◽  
Soil Biota ◽  
Exotic Plant Invasion ◽  
Plant Soil ◽  
Invasion Hypotheses ◽  
Plant Herbivore ◽  
Invertebrate Herbivores

AbstractHerbivores may facilitate or impede exotic plant invasion, depending on their direct and indirect interactions with exotic plants relative to co-occurring natives. However, previous studies investigating direct effects have mostly used pairwise native-exotic comparisons with few enemies, reached conflicting conclusions, and largely overlooked indirect interactions such as apparent competition. Here, we ask whether native and exotic plants differ in their interactions with invertebrate herbivores. We manipulate and measure plant-herbivore and plant-soil biota interactions in 160 experimental mesocosm communities to test several invasion hypotheses. We find that compared with natives, exotic plants support higher herbivore diversity and biomass, and experience larger proportional biomass reductions from herbivory, regardless of whether specialist soil biota are present. Yet, exotics consistently dominate community biomass, likely due to their fast growth rates rather than strong potential to exert apparent competition on neighbors. We conclude that polyphagous invertebrate herbivores are unlikely to play significant direct or indirect roles in mediating plant invasions, especially for fast-growing exotic plants.

scholarly journals Regulating plant herbivore defense pathways in the face of attacker diversity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan R. Croy ◽  
Nalleli Carvajal Acosta ◽  
Kailen A. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Herbivore Defense ◽  
The Face ◽  
Plant Herbivore

scholarly journals Evolutionary responses to environmental change: trophic interactions affect adaptation and persistence

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1805) ◽  
pp. 20141351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarad P. Mellard ◽  
Claire de Mazancourt ◽  
Michel Loreau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Trophic Interactions ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Plant Interaction ◽  
Persistence Time ◽  
Plant Persistence ◽  
Plant Herbivore Interaction ◽  
Plant Herbivore ◽  
Herbivore Interaction

According to recent reviews, the question of how trophic interactions may affect evolutionary responses to climate change remains unanswered. In this modelling study, we explore the evolutionary dynamics of thermal and plant–herbivore interaction traits in a warming environment. We find the herbivore usually reduces adaptation speed and persistence time of the plant by reducing biomass. However, if the plant interaction trait and thermal trait are correlated, herbivores can create different coevolutionary attractors. One attractor has a warmer plant thermal optimum, and the other a colder one compared with the environment. A warmer plant thermal strategy is given a head start under warming, the only case where herbivores can increase plant persistence under warming. Persistence time of the plant under warming is maximal at small or large thermal niche width. This study shows that considering trophic interactions is necessary and feasible for understanding how ecosystems respond to climate change.

scholarly journals Effects of Trophic Level and Metamorphosis on Discrimination of Hydrogen Isotopes in a Plant-Herbivore System

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. e32744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Peters ◽  
Nathan Wolf ◽  
Craig A. Stricker ◽  
Timothy R. Collier ◽  
Carlos Martínez del Rio
Keyword(s):  
Trophic Level ◽  
Hydrogen Isotopes ◽  
Plant Herbivore

Dynamics in a stochastic diffusive plant-herbivore system

2021 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 111147
Author(s):  
Zaitang Huang ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
Junfei Cao
Keyword(s):  
Plant Herbivore

scholarly journals Population dynamics and element recycling in an aquatic plant-herbivore system

1991 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.M. Nisbet ◽  
E. McCauley ◽  
A.M. de Roos ◽  
W.W. Murdoch ◽  
W.S.C. Gurney
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Aquatic Plant ◽  
Plant Herbivore
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