Avoidance and suppression of plant defenses by herbivores and pathogens
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Plants are nutritious and hence herbivores and phytopathogens have specialized to attack and consume them. In turn, plants have evolved adaptations to detect and withstand these attacks. Such adaptations we call ‘defenses’ and they can operate either directly between the plant and the plant consumer or indirectly i.e. when taking effect via other organisms such as predators and parasitoids of herbivores. Plant defenses put selection pressure on plant-consumers and, as a result, herbivores and pathogens have evolved counter-adaptations to avoid, resist, or manipulate plant defenses. Here we review how plant consumers have adapted to cope with plant defenses and we will put special emphasis on the phenomenon of suppression of plant defenses.
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When the herbivore is the initial agent, plants frequently activate metabolic pathways that produce jasmonic acid, which cascades many metabolic signals involved in disease resistance.
“Alternatively, when the herbivore is the initial agent, plants frequently activate metabolic pathways that produce jasmonic acid that, in turn, cascade many metabolic signals involved in disease resistance (1,20,23,24).”
From A Tripartite Interaction Between <i>Spartina alterniflora</i>, <i>Fusarium palustre</i>, and the Purple Marsh Crab (<i>Sesarma reticulatum</i>) Contributes to Sudden Vegetation Dieback of Salt Marshes in New England (2014) · cites this paper as [1]
The ‘Signal transduction in plant defenses’ section says plant-consumer elicitors and damage can lead to accumulation of jasmonic acid and other defense-related hormones. It does not describe jasmonic acid as generally cascading signals for disease resistance; the ‘Suppression via the jasmonate-salicylate antagonism’ section instead explains that activating JA defenses can inhibit salicylic-acid-dependent defenses against certain pathogens. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Alba, J. M., Glas, J. J., Schimmel, B. C. J., & Kant, M. R.
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- University of Amsterdam (NL)
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- Kant, Merijn R.
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- 1742-9153
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Keywords
- plant defense, herbivores, plant pathogens, defense suppression, counter-adaptation, plant-herbivore interactions, plant-pathogen interaction, indirect plant defense, predators and parasitoids
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