ArticleEcology and evolution2022
Early land plants: Plentiful but neglected nutritional resources for herbivores?
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- Fatty Acid Profiles of Some Siberian Bryophytes and Prospects of Their Use in Chemotaxonomy.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Early land plants: Plentiful but neglected nutritional resources for herbivores?Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Plants and herbivores have been engaged in a co-evolutionary arms race for millions of years, during which plants evolved various defenses and other traits to cope with herbivores, whereas herbivores evolved traits to overcome the plants' resistance strategies. Herbivores may also avoid certain plants merely because these lack suitable nutrients for their development. Interestingly, the number of herbivores that attack individual early land plants like mosses and ferns is quite low. Among others, poor nutrient quality has been hypothesized to explain the apparent low herbivory pressure on such plants but still waits for scientific evidences. Here, the nutritive suitability of representative mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) and ferns (pteridophytes) for herbivores was investigated using feeding assays combined with quantifications of nutrients (proteins, amino acids, and sugars). Growth and survival of two polyphagous herbivores, a caterpillar and a snail, were monitored when fed on 15 species of bryophytes and pteridophytes, as well as on maize (
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