Plant defenses against herbivory: closing the fitness gap

M Erb - Trends in Plant Science, 2018 - cell.com
Many morphological and chemical features of plants are classified as plant defenses against
herbivores. By definition, plant defenses should increase a plant's fitness (ie, its contribution …

Foraging in the dark–chemically mediated host plant location by belowground insect herbivores

SN Johnson, UN Nielsen - Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2012 - Springer
Root-feeding insects are key components in many terrestrial ecosystems. Like shoot-feeding
insect herbivores, they exploit a range of chemical cues to locate host plants. Respiratory …

A specialist root herbivore exploits defensive metabolites to locate nutritious tissues

CAM Robert, N Veyrat, G Glauser, G Marti… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 55–64 Abstract The most valuable organs of plants are often
particularly rich in essential elements, but also very well defended. This creates a dilemma …

A fungal endophyte helps plants to tolerate root herbivory through changes in gibberellin and jasmonate signaling

M Cosme, J Lu, M Erb, MJ Stout, P Franken… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–microbe mutualisms can improve plant defense, but the impact of root endophytes on
below‐ground herbivore interactions remains unknown. We investigated the effects of the …

Species-specific defence responses facilitate conspecifics and inhibit heterospecifics in above–belowground herbivore interactions

W Huang, E Siemann, L Xiao, X Yang, J Ding - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Conspecific and heterospecific aboveground and belowground herbivores often occur
together in nature and their interactions may determine community structure. Here we show …

A specialist root herbivore reduces plant resistance and uses an induced plant volatile to aggregate in a density‐dependent manner

CAM Robert, M Erb, BE Hibbard… - Functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf‐herbivore attack often triggers induced resistance in plants. However, certain specialist
herbivores can also take advantage of the induced metabolic changes. In some cases, they …

Secondary organic aerosol formation from phenolic compounds in the absence of NOx

S Nakao, C Clark, P Tang, K Sato… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
SOA formation from benzene, toluene, m-xylene, and their corresponding phenolic
compounds were investigated using the UCR/CE-CERT Environmental Chamber to …

Native insects and invasive plants encounters

A Sunny, S Diwakar, GP Sharma - Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2015 - Springer
Invasive plants disrupt both floral and faunal communities of the invaded regions. Influence
of invasive plants on ecosystem functioning and dynamics in the invaded region can be …

New frontiers in belowground ecology for plant protection from root-feeding insects

SN Johnson, CM Benefer, A Frew, BS Griffiths… - Applied Soil …, 2016 - Elsevier
Herbivorous insect pests living in the soil represent a significant challenge to food security
given their persistence, the acute damage they cause to plants and the difficulties …

Ample glycosylation in membrane and cell envelope proteins may explain the phenotypic diversity and virulence in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

AG Birhanu, SA Yimer, S Kalayou, T Riaz… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple regulatory mechanisms including post-translational modifications (PTMs) confer
complexity to the simpler genomes and proteomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) …