ArticleMicrobial ecology2023
Nectar-Inhabiting Bacteria Affect Olfactory Responses of an Insect Parasitoid by Altering Nectar Odors.
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- Influence of Filamentous Fungi on Nectar Chemistry and Cascading Effects for the Longevity of the Insect Parasitoids Trissolcus basalis and Ooencyrtus telenomicida.Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
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- Harnessing semiochemicals for parasitoid-based biological control: from laboratory identification to field applications.Crop health · 2025Review
- Microbial Volatiles from Human Skin and Floral Nectar: Insufficiently Understood Adult Feeding Cues To Improve Odor-Based Traps for Aedes Vector Control.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Review
- Neglected Microbes in Floral Nectar: Influence of Filamentous Fungi on Nectar Scent and Parasitoid Olfactory Responses.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Impact of Nectar Composition and Nectar Yeasts on Volatile Emissions and Parasitoid Behavior.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Tiny but mighty? Overview of a decade of research on nectar bacteria.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Insect-microbe interactions and their influence on organisms and ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- A quantitative survey of the blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) culturable nectar microbiome: variation between cultivars, locations, and farm management approaches.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Floral Volatile Organic Compounds Change the Composition and Function of the Endophytic Fungal Community in the Flowers ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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- Interspecies and temporal dynamics of bacterial and fungal microbiomes of pistil stigmas in flowers in holoparasitic plants of the Orobanche series Alsaticae (Orobanchaceae).Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Secondary Metabolites in Nectar-Mediated Plant-Pollinator Relationships.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Nature's Most Fruitful Threesome: The Relationship between Yeasts, Insects, and Angiosperms.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Floral nectar is ubiquitously colonized by a variety of microorganisms among which yeasts and bacteria are the most common. Microorganisms inhabiting floral nectar can alter several nectar traits, including nectar odor by producing microbial volatile organic compounds (mVOCs). Evidence showing that mVOCs can affect the foraging behavior of insect pollinators is increasing in the literature, whereas the role of mVOCs in altering the foraging behavior of third-trophic level organisms such as insect parasitoids is largely overlooked. Parasitoids are frequent visitors of flowers and are well known to feed on nectar. In this study, we isolated bacteria inhabiting floral nectar of buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonales: Polygonaceae), to test the hypothesis that nectar bacteria affect the foraging behavior of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) via changes in odors of nectar. In behavioral assays, we found that T. basalis wasps are attracted toward nectar fermented by 4 out of the 14 bacterial strains isolated, which belong to Staphylococcus epidermidis, Terrabacillus saccharophilus (both Firmicutes), Pantoea sp. (Proteobacteria), and Curtobacterium sp. (Actinobacteria). Results of chemical investigations revealed significant differences in the volatile blend composition of nectars fermented by the bacterial isolates. Our results indicate that nectar-inhabiting bacteria play an important role in the interactions between flowering plants and foraging parasitoids. These results are also relevant from an applied perspective as flowering resources, such as buckwheat, are largely used in agriculture to promote conservation biological control of insect pests.
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