ArticleThe New phytologist2015
Spider mites suppress tomato defenses downstream of jasmonate and salicylate independently of hormonal crosstalk.
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- Spider mite tetranins elicit different defense responses in different host habitats.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
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- Intraspecific variation for host immune activation by the spider miteRoyal Society open science · 2023Article
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- Plant-Mediated Effects of Beneficial Microbes and a Plant Strengthener against Spider Mites in Tomato.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A conserved protein disulfide isomerase enhances plant resistance against herbivores.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Enhanced top-down control of herbivore population growth on plants with impaired defences.Functional ecology · 2022Article
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- Intradiol ring cleavage dioxygenases from herbivorous spider mites as a new detoxification enzyme family in animals.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Transcriptomic profile of the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii (Acari: Phytoseiidae) on different host plants.Experimental & applied acarology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Plants respond to herbivory by mounting a defense. Some plant-eating spider mites (Tetranychus spp.) have adapted to plant defenses to maintain a high reproductive performance. From natural populations we selected three spider mite strains from two species, Tetranychus urticae and Tetranychus evansi, that can suppress plant defenses, using a fourth defense-inducing strain as a benchmark, to assess to which extent these strains suppress defenses differently. We characterized timing and magnitude of phytohormone accumulation and defense-gene expression, and determined if mites that cannot suppress defenses benefit from sharing a leaf with suppressors. The nonsuppressor strain induced a mixture of jasmonate- (JA) and salicylate (SA)-dependent defenses. Induced defense genes separated into three groups: 'early' (expression peak at 1 d postinfestation (dpi)); 'intermediate' (4 dpi); and 'late', whose expression increased until the leaf died. The T. evansi strains suppressed genes from all three groups, but the T. urticae strain only suppressed the late ones. Suppression occurred downstream of JA and SA accumulation, independently of the JA-SA antagonism, and was powerful enough to boost the reproductive performance of nonsuppressors up to 45%. Our results show that suppressing defenses not only brings benefits but, within herbivore communities, can also generate a considerable ecological cost when promoting the population growth of a competitor.
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