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Most herbivorous insects are host-plant specialists that evolved detoxification mechanisms to overcome their host plant's toxins. In the evolutionary arms-races between Pieridae butterflies and Brassicaceae plants, some plant species have evolved another defence against the pierids: egg-killing. Underneath the eggs, leaves develop a so-called hypersensitive response (HR)-like cell death.
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- Plants adapt their growth and defense strategies at different development stages to improve reproductive success, particularly in relation to herbivore interactions.
- Research typically examines how herbivory impacts plants, but the effects on pollinator interactions, crucial for plant reproduction, are often overlooked.
- A study found that herbivore presence during various growth stages significantly influences flowering traits and interactions with pollinators, with the most detrimental effects occurring when plants are attacked during their early vegetative stage.
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- - This study investigates how interactions between perennial wild cabbage plants and herbivores during their vegetative growth may lead to lasting effects on arthropod community composition in the following reproductive season, which can impact the plants' fitness.
- - Researchers set up experiments to see the effects of herbivory from aphids and caterpillars on plant traits like height, leaf number, and flower number, and then measured seed production in the second year to evaluate fitness.
- - The findings suggest that the composition of herbivore communities in the first year influences predator community composition in the second year, highlighting that these legacy effects may predict plant fitness more accurately than the immediate interactions with herbivores.
Plants defend themselves against diverse communities of herbivorous insects. This requires an investment of limited resources, for which plants also compete with neighbours. The consequences of an investment in defence are determined by the metabolic costs of defence as well as indirect or ecological costs through interactions with other organisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF1. Plants are frequently under attack by multiple insect herbivores, which may interact indirectly through herbivore-induced changes in the plant's phenotype. The identity, order, and timing of herbivore arrivals may influence the outcome of interactions between two herbivores.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEntomopathogenic fungi such as are currently considered as a potential control agent for malaria mosquitoes. The success of such strategies depends among others on the efficacy of the fungus to kill its hosts. As can use various resources for growth and reproduction, increasing the dependency on mosquitoes as a nutritional source may be instrumental for reaching this goal.
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