Lin, Po-An; Kansman, Jessica; Chuang, Wen-Po; Robert, Christelle; Erb, Matthias; Felton, Gary W (2023). Water availability and plant-herbivore interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(9), pp. 2811-2828. Oxford University Press 10.1093/jxb/erac481
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Water is essential to plant growth and drives plant evolution and interactions with other organisms, such as herbivores. However, water availability fluctuates, and these fluctuations are intensified by climate change. How plant water availability influences plant-herbivore interactions in the future is an important question in basic and applied ecology. Here we summarize and synthesize the recent discoveries on the impact of water availability on plant antiherbivore defense ecology and the underlying physiological processes. Water deficit tends to enhance plant resistance and escape traits (i.e., early phenology) against herbivory but negatively affects other defense strategies, including indirect defense and tolerance. However, exceptions were sometimes observed in specific plant-herbivore species pairs. We discuss the effect of water availability on species interactions associated with plants and herbivores from individual to community levels and how these interactions drive plant evolution. Although water stress and many other abiotic stresses are predicted to increase in intensity and frequency due to climate change, we identify a significant lack of study on the interactive impact of additional abiotic stressors on water-plant-herbivore interactions. This review summarizes critical knowledge gaps and informs future studies of possible research directions in water-plant-herbivore interactions.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Biotic Interactions 08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Robert, Christelle Aurélie Maud, Erb, Matthias |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany) 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems |
ISSN: |
0022-0957 |
Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
14 Dec 2022 08:11 |
Last Modified: |
08 Dec 2023 00:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1093/jxb/erac481 |
PubMed ID: |
36477789 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Plant defense abiotic stress climate change drought insect herbivore pest plant volatile resource availability water deficit water stress |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/175661 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175661 |
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