ArticleJournal of experimental botany2015
Trade-off between constitutive and inducible resistance against herbivores is only partially explained by gene expression and glucosinolate production.
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- Identifying aphid resistance in the ancestral wheat Triticum monococcum under field conditions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Editorial: Glucosinolates: Regulation of Biosynthesis and Hydrolysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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- Herbivory and resource availability shift plant defense and herbivore feeding choice in a seagrass system.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Same Difference? Low and High GlucosinolateFrontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- Unravelling mycorrhiza-induced wheat susceptibility to the English grain aphid Sitobion avenae.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Regulation of miR163 and its targets in defense against Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis thaliana.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Plant-mediated effects on an insect-pathogen interaction vary with intraspecific genetic variation in plant defences.Oecologia · 2017Article
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Abstract
The hypothesis that constitutive and inducible plant resistance against herbivores should trade-off because they use the same resources and impose costs to plant fitness has been postulated for a long time. Negative correlations between modes of deployment of resistance and defences have been observed across and within species in common garden experiments. It was therefore tested whether that pattern of resistance across genotypes follows a similar variation in patterns of gene expression and chemical defence production. Using the genetically tractable model Arabidopsis thaliana and different modes of induction, including the generalist herbivore Spodoptera littoralis, the specialist herbivore Pieris brassicae, and jasmonate application, constitutive and inducibility of resistance was measured across seven A. thaliana accessions that were previously selected based on constitutive levels of defence gene expression. According to theory, it was found that modes of resistance traded-off among accessions, particularly against S. littoralis, in which accessions investing in high constitutive resistance did not increase it substantially after attack and vice-versa. Accordingly, the average expression of eight genes involved in glucosinolate production negatively predicted larval growth across the seven accessions. Glucosinolate production and genes related to defence induction on healthy and herbivore-damaged plants were measured next. Surprisingly, only a partial correlation between glucosinolate production, gene expression, and the herbivore resistance results was found. These results suggest that the defence outcome of plants against herbivores goes beyond individual molecules or genes but stands on a complex network of interactions.
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