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Agronomy
Sharon Warburg, Mosaab Yahyaa, Tamar Lahav, Shlomit Medina, Shiri Freilich, Shira Gal, Eric Palevsky, Moshe Inbar, Mwafaq Ibdah
Summary: The study found that citrus resistance to T. urticae is induced by UV radiation, with a significant reduction in spider mite density on seedlings exposed to solar UV. The leaves contain numerous volatile compounds, many of which are known to be herbivore-induced and/or UV enhanced.
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Plant Sciences
Jun He, Rayko Halitschke, Meredith C. Schuman, Ian T. Baldwin
Summary: Light plays a crucial role in regulating the biosynthesis of volatile organic compounds in plants, particularly terpenoids and green leaf volatiles (GLVs) in N. attenuata. Light deprivation suppressed terpenoid emissions while enhancing GLV emissions, with a time lag. Additionally, silencing of specific genes affected the emission patterns of volatile compounds, highlighting the complexity of regulation mechanisms involved in plant-herbivore interactions.
Review
Plant Sciences
Nithya N. Kutty, Manasi Mishra
Summary: Plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as a defense mechanism against biotic stresses. These compounds stimulate plant defense responses and regulate interactions with natural enemies. Furthermore, metabolic engineering of volatile compounds can enhance plant defenses.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jorden Maglov, Min Yi Feng, Dorothy Lin, Kennedy Barkhouse, Anton Alexander, Miodrag Grbic, Vladimir Zhurov, Vojislava Grbic, Slavica Tudzarova
Summary: This study found that non-adapted two-spotted spider mites and human pancreatic beta-cells responded in a similar manner to stressors, favoring redox homeostasis maintenance over energy generation. However, upon host adaptation, mite energy metabolic states were restored to normal.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Maria Gyomar Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Jose Blasco, Sergio Cubero, Patricia Chueca
Summary: This study explores the potential of color and hyperspectral imaging techniques in detecting the damage caused by Tetranychus urticae Koch on citrus trees. Color images achieved a detection rate of 92.5% for damaged leaves, while hyperspectral imaging allowed discrimination between damaged and healthy leaves, as well as differentiating between recent and mature infestations. Additionally, good results were obtained in discriminating damage caused by T. urticae, P. citrella, and nutritional deficiencies.
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Plant Sciences
Amine Assouguem, Mohammed Kara, Hamza Mechchate, Fahd A. Al-Mekhlafi, Fahd Nasr, Abdellah Farah, Abderahim Lazraq
Summary: In citrus orchards planted with Valencia late in Morocco, eco-friendly treatments based on non-hazardous detergents and black soap were found to effectively reduce the population of the pest Tetranychus urticae Koch 1836. The treatments with black soap and detergents were also less harmful to the predatory insects compared to the chemical treatment with spirodiclofen.
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Agronomy
Pascal M. Ayelo, Abdullahi A. Yusuf, Christian W. W. Pirk, Anais Chailleux, Samira A. Mohamed, Emilie Deletre
Summary: The study found that Nesidiocoris tenuis is more attracted to tomato volatiles when the plants are infested by Tuta absoluta, but not necessarily by Trialeurodes vaporariorum. The predator is also attracted to T. absoluta larval frass, but not to T. vaporariorum honeydew or T. absoluta sex pheromone.
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Agronomy
Davy Meijer, Jaimie van der Vleut, Berhane T. T. Weldegergis, Thibault Costaz, Marcus Vinicius Alfenas Duarte, Apostolos Pekas, Joop J. A. van Loon, Marcel Dicke
Summary: The use of far-red light affects the volatile organic compounds emitted by tomato plants and does not interfere with the attraction of the predatory mite to herbivore-induced plants. Additionally, far-red light promotes biological control of spider mites in glasshouse tomatoes.
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Patrick Grof-Tisza, Stephanie Morelon, Gaylord A. Desurmont, Betty Benrey
Summary: Exposure to volatile compounds from damaged plants can enhance the resistance of neighboring plants to herbivores, with a specificity dependent on plant population. Constitutive and induced volatile emissions vary among populations of Phaseolus lunatus, influencing their responses to herbivory.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Nomi Sarmah, Athanasios Kaldis, Ioannis Kalampokis, Konstantinos A. Aliferis, Andreas Voloudakis, Dionysios Perdikis
Summary: The phytophagy of the predator Nesidiocoris tenuis can induce defense responses in tomato plants against pests. The puncturing of tomato plants by N. tenuis reduces the growth and survival of Tetranychus urticae and Tuta absoluta. Metabolomics analysis reveals differences in metabolite concentrations between punctured and unpunctured plants, and gene expression analysis suggests the occurrence of systemic signaling.
Article
Ecology
Katerina Sam, Eliska Kovarova, Inga Freiberga, Henriette Uthe, Alexander Weinhold, Leonardo R. Jorge, Rachakonda Sreekar
Summary: The research demonstrates that great tits can learn to identify herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as an indicator of food reward, rather than it being an innate ability. They are able to associate HIPVs with food reward through learning, but are not capable of generalizing this ability among different tree species.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Lingfei Hu
Summary: Plants utilize the integration of multiple volatile compounds to predict future herbivore attacks, enhancing their defense capacity through downstream signal transduction and hormonal crosstalk. Exploring this integration can deepen our understanding and utilization of chemical information transfer in plants.
Article
Entomology
Yao Zhang, Ying Liu, Xiao Liang, Chunling Wu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Mufeng Wu, Xiaowen Yao, Yang Qiao, Xue Zhan, Qing Chen
Summary: The exogenous application of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) can induce defense responses in cassava against the two-spotted spider mite (TSSM). This study found that MeJA treatment reduced TSSM egg production and adult longevity, slowed development, and prolonged the egg stage. TSSM-resistant cassava variety C1115 exhibited stronger inhibition of TSSM development and reproduction compared to the TSSM-susceptible variety KU50.
EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yi Wang, Jiaqi Wu, Ping Sun, Chenfei Chen, Jiansheng Shen
Summary: This study provides a detailed insight into the relationship between bacteria and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in fingered citron, highlighting the complexity of bacterial and metabolic interactions.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Yuan Xu, Zhisong Qiu, Yujing Zhang, Xialin Zheng, Wen Lu, Ping Hu
Summary: The larvae of the major wood-boring pest, Endoclita signifer, in China can accurately locate and infest eucalyptus trees, attracted by certain compounds released by infested trees. They recognize these compounds through a specific odor protein. These findings have important implications for pest control.
Article
Entomology
Marc Cabedo-Lopez, Joaquin Cruz-Miralles, David Peris, M. Victoria Ibanez-Gual, Victor Flors, Josep A. Jaques
Summary: Polyphagotarsonemus latus is a common polyphagous mite in tropical and subtropical areas, considered as an important citrus pest. This study found that sour orange displayed higher levels of constitutive and induced resistance compared with Cleopatra mandarin, when infested with P. latus. Contrary to Tetranychus urticae infestation, sour orange supported larger densities of P. latus than Cleopatra mandarin.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Pablo Urbaneja-Bernat, Josep A. Jaques
Summary: Climate change can disrupt biological control, but providing high-quality pollen can partially mitigate the adverse effects on the three main predators of T. urticae.
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Joaquin Cruz-Miralles, Marc Cabedo-Lopez, Michela Guzzo, Sandra Vacas, Vicente Navarro-Llopis, M. Victoria Ibanez-Gual, Victor Flors, Marta Montserrat, Josep A. Jaques
Summary: In mite communities, the foraging decisions of predatory mites are influenced by semiochemicals, including odors from plants, herbivores, and predators. This study found that different predators have species-specific odor signatures and their foraging behavior is affected by odors from heterospecific predators. The host plant also plays a significant role in predator responses.
ENTOMOLOGIA GENERALIS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Beatriz Val-Torregrosa, Mireia Bundo, Hector Martin-Cardoso, Marcel Bach-Pages, Tzyy-Jen Chiou, Victor Flors, Blanca San Segundo
Summary: In Arabidopsis, high phosphate treatment increases Pi content and reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation, resulting in resistance to fungal pathogen infection. High phosphate treatment also upregulates the expression of genes in the salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathways in non-infected plants. This study suggests that phosphate accumulation promotes immune responses in Arabidopsis and provides insights into the interactions between Pi signaling and hormonal signaling pathways.
Review
Entomology
Meritxell Perez-Hedo, Sarra Bouagga, Nina Xiaoning Zhang, Rob Moerkens, Gerben Messelink, Josep A. Jaques, Victor Flors, George Broufas, Alberto Urbaneja, Maria L. Pappas
Summary: This review presents the physiological basis of defense mechanisms activated by zoophytophagous predators in plants and their effects on pests and natural enemies. Our understanding of defense induction by these predators and its applied implications is relatively poor, but three approaches to exploit these defenses in crop protection are proposed.
JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Consuelo Perez-Sayas, Tatiana Pina, Beatriz Sabater-Munoz, Maria Antonia Gomez-Martinez, Josep A. Jaques, Monica A. Hurtado-Ruiz
Summary: This study provides a new method for species identification of agricultural pests such as Tetranychidae and Phytoseiidae. By analyzing the sequences of mitochondrial COI and ITS nuclear ribosomal DNA region, the researchers were able to establish species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among different clades of Acari. The results show that the selected DNA regions are informative for species identification and phylogenetic studies, and the Acari mitochondrial COI region is a suitable marker for establishing a barcode dataset.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Victoria Pastor, Raquel Cervero, Jordi Gamir
Summary: Plant cells perceive pathogen invasion by recognizing extracellular signals. The extracellular recognition of Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPs) and Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPs) leads to similar intracellular signaling, but the specific immune responses vary depending on the molecules' origins.
Article
Plant Sciences
Maria Manresa-Grao, Julia Pastor-Fernandez, Paloma Sanchez-Bel, Josep A. Jaques, Victoria Pastor, Victor Flors
Summary: This study revealed that mycorrhiza-induced resistance (MIR) can reduce damage from spider mites on locally infested citrus leaves and decrease mite oviposition rates. Mycorrhization leads to upregulated expression of certain metabolic pathways and increased concentrations of certain secondary metabolites. Specific compounds provide efficient protection against the mite, but systemic resistance did not improve after 72 hours of primary infestation.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Entomology
Alberto Urbaneja, Moshe Coll, Josep A. Jaques, Jose Eduardo Serrao, Dionysios Perdikis, Amy L. Roda
JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Entomology
J. Cruz-Miralles, M. Guzzo, M. V. Ibanez-Gual, O. Dembilio, J. A. Jaques
Summary: Ground covers can effectively reduce the emergence of the Mediterranean fruit fly, with the key role played by diverse ground-dwelling predators such as spiders, beetles, ants, and earwigs.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Marko Kebert, Sasa Kostic, Srdan Stojnic, Eleonora Capelja, Andelina Gavranovic Markic, Martina Zoric, Lazar Kesic, Victor Flors
Summary: Mycorrhizal fungi play a significant role in mitigating the effects of drought stress on pedunculate oak by increasing the levels of protective substances and regulating plant hormone levels.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Microbiology
Julia Pastor-Fernandez, Paloma Sanchez-Bel, Victor Flors, Miguel Cerezo, Victoria Pastor
Summary: The plant immunity system is gaining more attention as new elements and roles are discovered. Phytocytokines are being recognized as a part of a compound family that can amplify the immune response. This review aims to highlight the role of phytocytokines in the complex plant perception and signaling events during the immune response to biotic stress.
Article
Plant Sciences
Javier Lidoy, Alvaro Lopez-Garcia, Clara Amate, Juan Manuel Garcia, Victor Flors, Jose Manuel Garcia-Garrido, Concepcion Azcon-Aguilar, Juan Antonio Lopez-Raez, Maria Jose Pozo
Summary: This study compares the colonization abilities of two arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species, Funneliformis mosseae and Rhizophagus irregularis, in tomato plants under different stress conditions. The results show that the root colonization by the two fungi differs depending on the stress treatment and is correlated with changes in nutrient exchange, plant defensive responses, and symbiosis regulatory genes. These findings suggest that the benefits provided by each fungal species influence the carbon reward and control the root colonization by the host plant.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Carlos Cano-Barbacil, Martina Carrete, Pilar Castro-Diez, Miguel Delibes-Mateos, Josep A. Jaques, Marta Lopez-Darias, Manuel Nogales, Joan Pino, Macarena Ros, Anna Traveset, Xavier Turon, Montserrat Vila, Maria Altamirano, Ines Alvarez, Andres Arias, Dani Boix, Carlos Cabido, Eva Cacabelos, Fernando Cobo, Joaquin Cruz, Jose A. Cuesta, Beatriz Dader, Pedro del Estal, Belinda Gallardo, Miguel Gomez Laporta, Pablo Gonzalez-Moreno, Jose Carlos Hernandez, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Adrian Lazaro Lobo, Mar Leza, Marta Montserrat, Francisco J. Oliva-Paterna, Laura Pineiro, Carlos Ponce, Pere Pons, Roser Rotches-Ribalta, Nuria Roura-Pascual, Marta Sanchez, Alejandro Trillo, Elisa Vinuela, Emili Garcia-Berthou
Summary: Invasive alien species have significant impacts on native biodiversity and ecosystem services. This study used a three-step horizon scanning consensus method to identify potential invaders in Spain in the next 10 years. A total of 47 very high-risk, 61 high-risk, 93 moderate-risk, and 732 low-risk species were identified.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Correction
Agronomy
Sarra Bouagga, Alberto Urbaneja, Jose L. Rambla, Victor Flors, Antonio Granell, Josep A. Jaques, Meritxell Perez-Hedo
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)