ArticleOecologia2018
Glycoalkaloid composition explains variation in slug resistance in Solanum dulcamara.
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- Lebanese Medicinal Plants with Ophthalmic Properties.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Steroidal glycoside profile differences among primary roots system and adventitious roots in Solanum dulcamara.Planta · 2023Article
- A comparative study of plant volatiles induced by insect and gastropod herbivory.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Risk assessment of glycoalkaloids in feed and food, in particular in potatoes and potato-derived products.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2020Article
- Metabolomics Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Metabolite Compositions in Leaf Blade and Traps of CarnivorousInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Slug Feeding Triggers Dynamic Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Responses Leading to Induced Resistance inFrontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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- Gastropods and Insects Prefer Different Solanum dulcamara Chemotypes.Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
- Oviposition byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- From plants to herbivores: novel insights into the ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant variation.Oecologia · 2018Article
- Current Challenges in Plant Eco-Metabolomics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
In natural environments, plants have to deal with a wide range of different herbivores whose communities vary in time and space. It is believed that the chemical diversity within plant species has mainly arisen from selection pressures exerted by herbivores. So far, the effects of chemical diversity on plant resistance have mostly been assessed for arthropod herbivores. However, also gastropods, such as slugs, can cause extensive damage to plants. Here we investigate to what extent individual Solanum dulcamara plants differ in their resistance to slug herbivory and whether this variation can be explained by differences in secondary metabolites. We performed a series of preference assays using the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) and S. dulcamara accessions from eight geographically distinct populations from the Netherlands. Significant and consistent variation in slug preference was found for individual accessions within and among populations. Metabolomic analyses showed that variation in steroidal glycoalkaloids (GAs) correlated with slug preference; accessions with high GA levels were consistently less damaged by slugs. One, strongly preferred, accession with particularly low GA levels contained high levels of structurally related steroidal compounds. These were conjugated with uronic acid instead of the glycoside moieties common for Solanum GAs. Our results illustrate how intraspecific variation in steroidal glycoside profiles affects resistance to slug feeding. This suggests that also slugs should be considered as important drivers in the co-evolution between plants and herbivores.
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