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- Title
Microbial ecology: A bacterial decoy skews plant defences.
- Authors
Kåhrström, Christina Tobin
- Abstract
The article presents a study which explores the role of symbionts in manipulating plant defenses through the observation of the larvae of the Colorado potato beetle (CPB) Leptinotarsa decemlineata. It notes that the larvae of CPB secretes bacterial symbionts that can suppress an anti-herbivore defence pathway in tomato plants thus promote larval growth. Researchers have observed that the oral secretions deposited on plant leaves by untreated CPB larvae contained large amounts of bacteria.
- Subjects
PLANT defenses; COLORADO potato beetle; LARVAL physiology; LARVAL defenses; PLANT-bacteria relationships; PLANT resistance to insects
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 11, p740
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro3142