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Front Physiol


Title:Mating Status of an Herbivorous Stink Bug Female Affects the Emission of Oviposition-Induced Plant Volatiles Exploited by an Egg Parasitoid
Author(s):Salerno G; Frati F; Conti E; Peri E; Colazza S; Cusumano A;
Address:"Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. UMR 1333 DGIMI, INRA, Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, France"
Journal Title:Front Physiol
Year:2019
Volume:20190412
Issue:
Page Number:398 -
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00398
ISSN/ISBN:1664-042X (Print) 1664-042X (Electronic) 1664-042X (Linking)
Abstract:"Insect parasitoids are under selection pressure to optimize their host location strategy in order to maximize fitness. In parasitoid species that develop on host eggs, one of these strategies consists in the exploitation of oviposition-induced plant volatiles (OIPVs), specific blends of volatile organic compounds released by plants in response to egg deposition by herbivorous insects. Plants can recognize insect oviposition via elicitors that trigger OIPVs, but very few elicitors have been characterized so far. In particular, the source and the nature of the elicitor responsible of egg parasitoid recruitment in the case of plants induced with oviposition by stink bugs are still unknown. In this paper, we conducted behavioral and molecular investigations to localize the source of the elicitor that attracts egg parasitoids and elucidate the role of host mating in elicitation of plant responses. We used as organism study model a tritrophic system consisting of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis, the stink bug host Nezara viridula and the plant Vicia faba. We found that egg parasitoid attraction to plant volatiles is triggered by extracts coming from the dilated portion of the stink bug spermathecal complex. However, attraction only occurs if extracts are obtained from mated females but not from virgin ones. Egg parasitoid attraction was not observed when extracts coming from the accessory glands (mesadene and ectadene) of male hosts were applied, either alone or in combination to plants. SDS-PAGE electrophoresis correlated with olfactometer observations as the protein profile of the dilated portion of the spermathecal complex was affected by the stink bug mating status suggesting post-copulatory physiological changes in this reproductive structure. This study contributed to better understanding the host location process by egg parasitoids and laid the basis for the chemical characterization of the elicitor responsible for OIPV emission"
Keywords:Nezara viridula OIPVs Trissolcus basalis Vicia faba elicitor indirect plant defenses;
Notes:"PubMed-not-MEDLINESalerno, Gianandrea Frati, Francesca Conti, Eric Peri, Ezio Colazza, Stefano Cusumano, Antonino eng Switzerland 2019/04/30 Front Physiol. 2019 Apr 12; 10:398. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00398. eCollection 2019"

 
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