ArticleOecologia2018
Plants eavesdrop on cues produced by snails and induce costly defenses that affect insect herbivores.
Article in Oecologia, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Effects of contrasting herbivore cues on seedlings of a long-lived woody tree: growth, chemistry, and resistance to herbivores.AoB PLANTS · 2026Article
- Woody seeds and seedlings are unresponsive to herbivore kairomones.AoB PLANTS · 2026Article
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- Herbivore cues and plant damage-associated compounds jointly alter seed germination and seedling herbivory.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Tomato Defenses Under Stress: The Impact of Salinity on Direct Defenses Against Insect Herbivores.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
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- Plant induced defenses that promote cannibalism reduce herbivory as effectively as highly pathogenic herbivore pathogens.Oecologia · 2022Article
- Generalist herbivore response to volatile chemical induction varies along a gradient in soil salinization.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Volatile-mediated plant-plant interactions: volatile organic compounds as modulators of receiver plant defence, growth, and reproduction.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Review
- Proportional fitness loss and the timing of defensive investment: a cohesive framework across animals and plants.Oecologia · 2020Review
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Abstract
Although induced defenses are widespread in plants, the degree to which plants respond to herbivore kairomones (incidental chemicals that herbivores produce independent of herbivory), the costs and benefits of responding to cues of herbivory risk, and the ecological consequences of induced defenses remain unclear. We demonstrate that undamaged tomatoes, Solanum lycopersicum, induce defenses in response to a kairomone (locomotion mucus) of snail herbivores (Helix aspersa). Induced defense had significant costs and benefits for plants: plants exposed to snail mucus or a standard defense elicitor (methyl jasmonate, MeJA) exhibited slower growth, but also experienced less herbivory by an insect herbivore (Spodoptera exigua). We also find that kairomones from molluscan herbivores lead to deleterious effects on insect herbivores mediated through changes in plant defense, i.e., mucus-induced defenses of Solanum lycopersicum-reduced growth of S. exigua. These results suggest that incidental cues of widespread generalist herbivores might be a mechanism creating variation in plant growth, plant defense, and biotic interactions.
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