Publications by authors named "Klara Benedek"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how plant chemical defenses against herbivores affect microbes in the soil and nutrient release, focusing on Tansy plants with different antiherbivore chemotypes.
- A factorial experiment assessed the impact of soil type and litter from various chemotypes on the composition of soil microbial communities, revealing that soil type plays a more significant role than litter type.
- While some microbial taxa were associated with specific chemotypes, the existing soil microbial community had a greater influence, suggesting that fresh litter from different chemotypes mainly acts as a secondary filter for the microbial community.
It is becoming increasingly appreciated that the structure and functioning of ecological food webs are controlled by the nature and level of plant chemicals. It is hypothesized that intraspecific variation in plant chemical resistance, in which individuals of a host-plant population exhibit genetic differences in their chemical contents (called 'plant chemotypes'), may be an important determinant of variation in food web structure and functioning. We evaluated this hypothesis using field assessments and plant chemical assays in the tansy plant Tanacetum vulgare L.
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