ArticlePloS one2013
Intraspecific combinations of flower and leaf volatiles act together in attracting hawkmoth pollinators.
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- Exploring the importance of aromatic plants' extrafloral volatiles for pollinator attraction.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Floral volatiles evoke partially similar responses in both florivores and pollinators and are correlated with non-volatile reward chemicals.Annals of botany · 2023Review
- Field sampling of fig pollinator wasps across host species and host developmental phase: Implications for host recognition and specificity.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Innate attraction and aversion to odors in locusts.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Advanced Chemophenetic Analysis of Essential Oil from Leaves ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Leaf Induction Impacts Behavior and Performance of a Pollinating Herbivore.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Combinatorial Codes and Labeled Lines: How Insects Use Olfactory Cues to Find and Judge Food, Mates, and Oviposition Sites in Complex Environments.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- β-Ocimene, a Key Floral and Foliar Volatile Involved in Multiple Interactions between Plants and Other Organisms.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
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Abstract
Insects pinpoint mates, food and oviposition sites by olfactory cues. Recognizing and localizing a suitable target by olfaction is demanding. Odor sources emit characteristic blends of compounds that have to be identified against an environmentally derived olfactory background. This background, however, does not necessarily disturb the localization of a source. Rather, the contrary. Sex pheromones become more attractive to male moths when being presented against a relevant plant background. Here we asked whether such olfactory coaction also characterizes foraging cues. The tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta feeds on nectar from wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata and sacred datura Datura wrightii flowers. We tested how leaf-derived volatile blends as a background affect the moths' approach to flower blends. We found coaction when a flower blend was presented against a conspecific leaf volatile background but not when the blend was presented against volatiles emitted by the other host plant or by a non-host plant. Hence, our results reveal a species-specific coaction between flower blend and leaf volatile background. The ability to integrate information from different odor sources on one plant might provide the moth with a fine-grained analysis of food site quality.
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