ReviewJournal of chemical ecology2012
Induced immunity against belowground insect herbivores- activation of defenses in the absence of a jasmonate burst.
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- Aboveground and Belowground Insect Herbivory Changes Maize-Wireworm Interactions via Root Volatile Cues.Plant, cell & environment · 2026Article
- Aboveground insect herbivory shapes plant-soil feedback and ecosystem resilience.Biologia futura · 2026Review
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- Belowground and aboveground herbivory differentially affect the transcriptome in roots and shoots of maize.Plant direct · 2022Article
- Species-specific plant-mediated effects between herbivores converge at high damage intensity.Ecology · 2022Article
- A Beneficial Plant-Associated Fungus Shifts the Balance toward Plant Growth over Resistance, Increasing Cucumber Tolerance to Root Herbivory.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Shoot and root insect herbivory change the plant rhizosphere microbiome and affects cabbage-insect interactions through plant-soil feedback.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Leaf herbivory counteracts nematode-triggered repression of jasmonate-related defenses in tomato roots.Plant physiology · 2021Article
- Maize biochemistry in response to root herbivory was mediated by domestication, spread, and breeding.Planta · 2021Article
- Herbivore-induced plant volatiles mediate defense regulation in maize leaves but not in maize roots.Plant, cell & environment · 2021Article
- Comparing Exogenous Methods to Induce Plant-Resistance Against a Bark-Feeding Insect.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Foliar herbivory by caterpillars and aphids differentially affects phytohormonal signalling in roots and plant defence to a root herbivore.Plant, cell & environment · 2020Article
- Distinct defense strategies allow different grassland species to cope with root herbivore attack.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Correlated Induction of Phytohormones and Glucosinolates Shapes Insect Herbivore Resistance of Cardamine Species Along Elevational Gradients.Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
- Two New Polyphenol Oxidase Genes of Tea Plant (International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- A Maize Inbred Exhibits Resistance Against Western Corn Rootwoorm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera.Journal of chemical ecology · 2017Article
- Sequential above- and belowground herbivory modifies plant responses depending on herbivore identity.BMC ecology · 2017Article
- Q&A: How does jasmonate signaling enable plants to adapt and survive?BMC biology · 2016Article
- A fungal endophyte helps plants to tolerate root herbivory through changes in gibberellin and jasmonate signaling.The New phytologist · 2016Article
- Get Tough, Get Toxic, or Get a Bodyguard: Identifying Candidate Traits Conferring Belowground Resistance to Herbivores in Grasses.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Review
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Abstract
Roots respond dynamically to belowground herbivore attack. Yet, little is known about the mechanisms and ecological consequences of these responses. Do roots behave the same way as leaves, or do the paradigms derived from aboveground research need to be rewritten? This is the central question that we tackle in this article. To this end, we review the current literature on induced root defenses and present a number of experiments on the interaction between the root herbivore Diabrotica virgifera and its natural host, maize. Currently, the literature provides no clear evidence that plants can recognize root herbivores specifically. In maize, mild mechanical damage is sufficient to trigger a root volatile response comparable to D. virgifera induction. Interestingly, the jasmonate (JA) burst, a highly conserved signaling event following leaf attack, is consistently attenuated in the roots across plant species, from wild tobacco to Arabidopsis. In accordance, we found only a weak JA response in D. virgifera attacked maize roots. Despite this reduction in JA-signaling, roots of many plants start producing a distinct suite of secondary metabolites upon attack and reconfigure their primary metabolism. We, therefore, postulate the existence of additional, unknown signals that govern induced root responses in the absence of a jasmonate burst. Surprisingly, despite the high phenotypic plasticity of plant roots, evidence for herbivore-induced resistance below ground is virtually absent from the literature. We propose that other defensive mechanisms, including resource reallocation and compensatory growth, may be more important to improve plant immunity below ground.
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