Spatial Heterogeneity in a Butterfly--Host Plant Interaction

10.2307/5580 ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rodriguez ◽  
D. Jordano ◽  
J. Fernandez Haeger
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Heterogeneity ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Interaction

Differential expression of structural and functional proteins during bean common mosaic virus-host plant interaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 103812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar ◽  
Chetna Dhembla ◽  
Hariprasad P ◽  
Monica Sundd ◽  
Ashok Kumar Patel
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Mosaic Virus ◽  
Differential Expression ◽  
Bean Common Mosaic Virus ◽  
Plant Interaction

RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE IN A HOST PLANT–HOLOPARASITIC PLANT INTERACTION: GENETIC VARIATION AND COSTS

Evolution ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Koskela ◽  
Susanna Puustinen ◽  
Veikko Salonen ◽  
Pia Mutikainen
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Interaction ◽  
Holoparasitic Plant

Chemically Mediated Host-Plant Selection by the Milfoil Weevil: A Freshwater Insect–Plant Interaction

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 2857-2876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Marko ◽  
Raymond M. Newman ◽  
Florence K. Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Plant Selection ◽  
Plant Interaction ◽  
Milfoil Weevil

The plant-ant Camponotus schmitzi helps its carnivorous host-plant Nepenthes bicalcarata to catch its prey

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Bonhomme ◽  
Isabelle Gounand ◽  
Christine Alaux ◽  
Emmanuelle Jousselin ◽  
Daniel Barthélémy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Nutrition ◽  
Capture Rate ◽  
Acidic Ph ◽  
Plant Interaction ◽  
Unusual Association ◽  
Peat Swamp ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Nutritional Mutualism

Abstract:The Bornean climber, Nepenthes bicalcarata, is unique among plants because it is both carnivorous and myrmecophytic, bearing pitcher-shaped leaves and the ant Camponotus schmitzi within tendrils. We explored, in the peat swamp forests of Brunei, the hypothesis that these ants contribute to plant nutrition by catching and digesting its prey. We first tested whether ants increased plant's capture rate. We found that unlike most plant-ants, C. schmitzi do not exhibit dissuasive leaf-patrolling behaviour (zero patrol on 67 pitchers of 10 plants) but lie concealed under pitcher rim (13 ± 6 ants per pitcher) allowing numerous insect visits. However, 47 out of 50 individuals of the largest visitor dropped into the pitchers of five plants were attacked by ants and the capture rate of the same pitchers deprived of their ambush hunting ants decreased three-fold. We then tested whether ants participated in plant's digestion. We showed in a 15-d long experiment that ants fed on prey and returned it in pieces in seven out of eight pitchers. The 40 prey deposited in ant-deprived pitchers remained intact indicating a weak digestive power of the fluid confirmed to be only weakly acidic (pH ~5, n = 67). The analysis of 10 pitcher contents revealed that prey, mainly ants and termites, was very numerous (~400 per pitcher per plant) and highly fragmented. Altogether, these data suggest a positive effect of C. schmitzi on both prey intake and breakdown. This ant–plant interaction could thus be a nutritional mutualism involving the unusual association of carnivory and myrmecotrophy.

scholarly journals LOCAL ADAPTATION, RESISTANCE, AND VIRULENCE IN A HEMIPARASITIC PLANT-HOST PLANT INTERACTION

Evolution ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Mutikainen ◽  
Veikko Salonen ◽  
Susanna Puustinen ◽  
Tanja Koskela
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Plant Host ◽  
Plant Interaction
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