ArticleOecologia2016
Down-regulation of plant defence in a resident spider mite species and its effect upon con- and heterospecifics.
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- Suppression of Plant Resistance May Be a Common Trait Among Adapted Herbivores.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Rising temperatures favour defence-suppressing herbivores.Journal of pest science · 2025Article
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- Intraspecific variation for host immune activation by the spider miteRoyal Society open science · 2023Article
- Concurrent herbivory and metal accumulation: The outcome for plants and herbivores.Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Microbiome Heritability and Its Role in Adaptation of Hosts to Novel Resources.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- The distribution of herbivores between leaves matches their performance only in the absence of competitors.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Spider Mites Cause More Damage to Tomato in the Dark When Induced Defenses Are Lower.Journal of chemical ecology · 2020Article
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- Inter- and intraspecific variation of spider mite susceptibility to fungal infections: Implications for the long-term success of biological control.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Plant Defense Responses Induced by Two Herbivores and Consequences for WhiteflyFrontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Ecology and evolution of facilitation among symbionts.Nature communications · 2018Review
- Distinct Signatures of Host Defense Suppression by Plant-Feeding Mites.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Suppression of Plant Defenses by Herbivorous Mites Is Not Associated with Adaptation to Host Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Why Do Herbivorous Mites Suppress Plant Defenses?Frontiers in plant science · 2018Review
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Abstract
Herbivorous spider mites occurring on tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cope with plant defences in various manners: the invasive Tetranychus evansi reduces defences below constitutive levels, whereas several strains of T. urticae induce such defences and others suppress them. In the Mediterranean region, these two species co-occur on tomato plants with T. ludeni, another closely related spider mite species. Unravelling how this third mite species affects plant defences is thus fundamental to understanding the outcome of herbivore interactions in this system. To test the effect of T. ludeni on tomato plant defences, we measured (1) the activity of proteinase inhibitors, indicating the induction of plant defences, in those plants, and (2) mite performance on plants previously infested with each mite species. We show that the performance of T. evansi and T. ludeni on plants previously infested with T. ludeni or T. evansi was better than on clean plants, indicating that these two mite species down-regulate plant defences. We also show that plants attacked by these mite species had lower activity of proteinase inhibitors than clean plants, whereas herbivory by T. urticae increased the activity of these proteins and resulted in reduced spider mite performance. This study thus shows that the property of down-regulation of plant defences below constitutive levels also occurs in T. ludeni.
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