| Title: | Responses of pea plants to multiple antagonists are mediated by order of attack and phytohormone crosstalk |
| Author(s): | Basu S; Clark RE; Bera S; Casteel CL; Crowder DW; |
| Address: | "Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1365-294X (Electronic) 0962-1083 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Plants are often attacked by multiple antagonists and traits of the attacking organisms and their order of arrival onto hosts may affect plant defences. However, few studies have assessed how multiple antagonists, and varying attack order, affect plant defence or nutrition. To address this, we assessed defensive and nutritional responses of Pisum sativum plants after attack by a vector herbivore (Acrythosiphon pisum), a nonvector herbivore (Sitona lineatus), and a pathogen (Pea enation mosaic virus, PEMV). We show viruliferous A. pisum induced several antipathogen plant defence signals, but these defences were inhibited by S. lineatus feeding on peas infected with PEMV. In contrast, S. lineatus feeding induced antiherbivore defence signals, and these plant defences were enhanced by PEMV. Sitona lineatus also increased abundance of plant amino acids, but only when they attacked after viruliferous A. pisum. Our results suggest that diverse communities of biotic antagonists alter defence and nutritional traits of plants through complex pathways that depend on the identity of attackers and their order of arrival onto hosts. Moreover, we show interactions among a group of biotic stressors can vary along a spectrum from antagonism to enhancement/synergism based on the identity and order of attackers, and these interactions are mediated by a multitude of phytohormone pathways" |
| Keywords: | Animals Herbivory *Peas Plant Growth Regulators *Weevils disease ecology plant defensive chemistry plant nutrients plant-insect-pathogen interactions species interactions; |
| Notes: | "MedlineBasu, Saumik Clark, Robert E Bera, Sayanta Casteel, Clare L Crowder, David W eng Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. England 2021/08/05 Mol Ecol. 2021 Oct; 30(19):4939-4948. doi: 10.1111/mec.16103. Epub 2021 Aug 14" |
