Title: | Contrasting insect attraction and herbivore-induced plant volatile production in maize |
Author(s): | Block AK; Hunter CT; Rering C; Christensen SA; Meagher RL; |
Address: | "US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1700 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32608, USA. anna.block@ars.usda.gov. US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1700 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32608, USA" |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00425-018-2886-x |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1432-2048 (Electronic) 0032-0935 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "The maize inbred line W22 has lower herbivore-induced volatile production than B73 but both fall armyworm larvae and the wasps that parasitize them prefer W22 over B73. Maize inbred line W22 is an important resource for genetic studies due to the availability of the UniformMu mutant population and a complete genome sequence. In this study, we assessed the suitability of W22 as a model for tritrophic interactions between maize, Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) and the parasitoid wasp Cotesia marginiventris. W22 was found to be a good model for studying the interaction as S. frugiperda prefers W22 over B73 and a higher parasitism rate by C. marginiventris was observed on W22 compared to the inbred line B73. W22 also produced lower amounts of many herbivore-induced volatile terpenes and indole emission upon treatment with S. frugiperda oral secretions. We propose that some of the major herbivore-induced terpene volatiles are perhaps impeding S. frugiperda and C. marginiventris preference and that as yet unidentified compounds are produced at low abundance may be positively impacting these interactions" |
Keywords: | "Animals Benzoxazines/metabolism Gene Expression Profiling *Herbivory Indoles/metabolism Models, Biological Pheromones/*metabolism *Spodoptera/parasitology Terpenes/metabolism Volatile Organic Compounds/*metabolism *Wasps/physiology Zea mays/*metabolism/pa;" |
Notes: | "MedlineBlock, Anna K Hunter, Charles T Rering, Caitlin Christensen, Shawn A Meagher, Robert L eng 6036-21000-011-00-D/Agricultural Research Service/ Germany 2018/04/05 Planta. 2018 Jul; 248(1):105-116. doi: 10.1007/s00425-018-2886-x. Epub 2018 Apr 3" |