ArticleEcology letters2025
A Fungal Endophyte Alters Poplar Leaf Chemistry, Deters Insect Feeding and Shapes Insect Community Assembly.
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- Plant strategies against herbivorous insects.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026Review
- Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Review
- Leaf beetles employ tryptophan to detoxify the chemical defenses of poplar trees.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Populus salicinoids: a thriving subfield in the omics era.Tree physiology · 2025Review
- Enhanced bioproduction of phenolic compounds fromFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025Article
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Fungal endophytes of grasses and other herbaceous plants have been known to provide plants with anti-herbivore defence compounds, but there is little information about whether the endophytes of trees also engage in such mutualisms. We investigated the influence of the endophytic fungus Cladosporium sp. on the chemical defences of black poplar (Populus nigra) trees and the consequences for feeding preference and fitness of herbivorous insects and insect community assembly. Endophyte colonisation increased both constitutive- and induced poplar defences. Generalist Lymantria dispar larvae preferred and performed better on uninfected over endophyte-infected poplar leaves, most likely due to higher concentrations of salicinoids in endophyte-inoculated leaves and the endophyte-produced alkaloid stachydrine. Under field conditions, the endophytic fungus shapes insect community assembly i. a. attracting aphids, which can excrete stachydrine. Our results show that endophytic fungi play a crucial role in the defence against insects from different feeding guilds and thereby structuring insect communities.
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