ArticlePlant, cell & environment2019
Floral plasticity: Herbivore-species-specific-induced changes in flower traits with contrasting effects on pollinator visitation.
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- Impact of plant monoterpenes on insect pest management and insect-associated microbes.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Agricultural landscape simplification affects wild plant reproduction indirectly through herbivore-mediated changes in floral display.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Bee-pollination promotes rapid divergent evolution in plants growing in different soils.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Seed treatment with clothianidin induces changes in plant metabolism and alters pollinator foraging preferences.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2023Article
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- Bringing Fundamental Insights of Induced Resistance to Agricultural Management of Herbivore Pests.Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Review
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- Flowers prepare thyselves: leaf and root herbivores induce specific changes in floral phytochemistry with consequences for plant interactions with florivores.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Water stress and nitrogen supply affect floral traits and pollination of the white mustard,PeerJ · 2022Article
- Florivory and Pollination Intersection: Changes in Floral Trait Expression Do Not Discourage Hummingbird Pollination.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Arthropod Interactions in Light of the "Omics" Sciences: A Broad Guide.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Mutualist- and antagonist-mediated selection contribute to trait diversification of flowers.PeerJ · 2022Review
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Abstract
Plant phenotypic plasticity in response to antagonists can affect other community members such as mutualists, conferring potential ecological costs associated with inducible plant defence. For flowering plants, induction of defences to deal with herbivores can lead to disruption of plant-pollinator interactions. Current knowledge on the full extent of herbivore-induced changes in flower traits is limited, and we know little about specificity of induction of flower traits and specificity of effect on flower visitors. We exposed flowering Brassica nigra plants to six insect herbivore species and recorded changes in flower traits (flower abundance, morphology, colour, volatile emission, nectar quantity, and pollen quantity and size) and the behaviour of two pollinating insects. Our results show that herbivory can affect multiple flower traits and pollinator behaviour. Most plastic floral traits were flower morphology, colour, the composition of the volatile blend, and nectar production. Herbivore-induced changes in flower traits resulted in positive, negative, or neutral effects on pollinator behaviour. Effects on flower traits and pollinator behaviour were herbivore species-specific. Flowers show extensive plasticity in response to antagonist herbivores, with contrasting effects on mutualist pollinators. Antagonists can potentially act as agents of selection on flower traits and plant reproduction via plant-mediated interactions with mutualists.
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