| Title: | Sequential effects of root and foliar herbivory on aboveground and belowground induced plant defense responses and insect performance |
| Author(s): | Wang M; Biere A; van der Putten WH; Bezemer TM; |
| Address: | "Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands, m.wang@nioo.knaw.nl" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00442-014-2885-y |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1432-1939 (Electronic) 0029-8549 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Plants are often simultaneously or sequentially attacked by multiple herbivores and changes in host plants induced by one herbivore can influence the performance of other herbivores. We examined how sequential feeding on the plant Plantago lanceolata by the aboveground herbivore Spodoptera exigua and the belowground herbivore Agriotes lineatus influences plant defense and the performance of both insects. Belowground herbivory caused a reduction in the food consumption by the aboveground herbivore independent of whether it was initiated before, at the same time, or after that of the aboveground herbivore. By contrast, aboveground herbivory did not significantly affect belowground herbivore performance, but significantly reduced the performance of later arriving aboveground conspecifics. Interestingly, belowground herbivores negated negative effects of aboveground herbivores on consumption efficiency of their later arriving conspecifics, but only if the belowground herbivores were introduced simultaneously with the early arriving aboveground herbivores. Aboveground-belowground interactions could only partly be explained by induced changes in an important class of defense compounds, iridoid glycosides (IGs). Belowground herbivory caused a reduction in IGs in roots without affecting shoot levels, while aboveground herbivory increased IG levels in roots in the short term (4 days) but only in the shoots in the longer term (17 days). We conclude that the sequence of aboveground and belowground herbivory is important in interactions between aboveground and belowground herbivores and that knowledge on the timing of exposure is essential to predict outcomes of aboveground-belowground interactions" |
| Keywords: | Animals Biomass Coleoptera/physiology *Herbivory Insecta/*physiology Iridoid Glycosides/chemistry Larva/physiology Plant Leaves/chemistry/*physiology Plant Roots/chemistry/*physiology Plantago/*physiology Spodoptera/physiology; |
| Notes: | "MedlineWang, Minggang Biere, Arjen Van der Putten, Wim H Bezemer, T Martijn eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Germany 2014/01/23 Oecologia. 2014 May; 175(1):187-98. doi: 10.1007/s00442-014-2885-y. Epub 2014 Jan 22" |
