Optimizing crops for biocontrol of pests and disease

JA Stenberg, M Heil, I Åhman, C Björkman - Trends in plant science, 2015 - cell.com
Volatile compounds and extrafloral nectar are common defenses of wild plants; however, in
crops they bear an as-yet underused potential for biological control of pests and diseases …

Plant volatiles in polluted atmospheres: stress responses and signal degradation

JD Blande, JK Holopainen… - Plant, cell & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plants emit a plethora of volatile organic compounds, which provide detailed information on
the physiological condition of emitters. Volatiles induced by herbivore feeding are among …

Herbivore‐induced plant volatiles: targets, perception and unanswered questions

M Heil - 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plants respond to mechanical wounding, herbivore feeding or infection by pathogens with
the release of volatiles. Small C6 molecules termed green‐leaf volatiles form a general …

Who is my neighbor? Volatile cues in plant interactions

V Ninkovic, M Rensing, I Dahlin… - Plant Signaling & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
One of the most important challenges for individual plants is coexistence with their
neighbors. To compensate for their sessile lifestyle, plants developed complex and …

Plant volatiles cause direct, induced and associational resistance in common bean to the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum lindemuthianum

E Quintana‐Rodriguez, AT Morales‐Vargas… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plants that express resistance to herbivores emit volatile organic compounds (VOC s) that
can trigger resistance responses in undamaged neighbours. Recent reports indicate that …

Potential roles of volatile organic compounds in plant competition

E Effah, JK Holopainen, AC McCormick - Perspectives in Plant Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a major currency in plant communication where
they mediate above-and below-ground interactions between plants and the surrounding …

Ecology of plant volatiles: taking a plant community perspective

R Pierik, CL Ballaré, M Dicke - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Although plants are sessile organisms, they can modulate their phenotype so as to cope
with environmental stresses such as herbivore attack and competition with neighbouring …

The terpene synthase gene family in Gossypium hirsutum harbors a linalool synthase GhTPS12 implicated in direct defence responses against herbivores

XZ Huang, YT Xiao, TG Köllner, WX Jing… - Plant, Cell & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivore‐induced terpenes have been reported to function as ecological signals in plant–
insect interactions. Here, we showed that insect‐induced cotton volatile blends contained 16 …

The Orthotospovirus nonstructural protein NSs suppresses plant MYC-regulated jasmonate signaling leading to enhanced vector attraction and performance

X Wu, S Xu, P Zhao, X Zhang, X Yao, Y Sun… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Pandemics of vector-borne human and plant diseases often depend on the behaviors of
their arthropod vectors. Arboviruses, including many bunyaviruses, manipulate vector …

The impact of plant chemical diversity on plant–herbivore interactions at the community level

D Salazar, A Jaramillo, RJ Marquis - Oecologia, 2016 - Springer
Understanding the role of diversity in ecosystem processes and species interactions is a
central goal of ecology. For plant–herbivore interactions, it has been hypothesized that when …