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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2019

Plant defense resistance in natural enemies of a specialist insect herbivore.

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Plants defend themselves against herbivores through the production of toxic and deterrent metabolites. Adapted herbivores can tolerate and sometimes sequester these metabolites, allowing them to feed on defended plants and become toxic to their own enemies. Can herbivore natural enemies overcome sequestered plant defense metabolites to prey on adapted herbivores? To address this question, we studied how entomopathogenic nematodes cope with benzoxazinoid defense metabolites that are produced by grasses and sequestered by a specialist maize herbivore, the western corn rootworm. We find that nematodes from US maize fields in regions in which the western corn rootworm was present over the last 50 y are behaviorally and metabolically resistant to sequestered benzoxazinoids and more infective toward the western corn rootworm than nematodes from other parts of the world. Exposure of a benzoxazinoid-susceptible nematode strain to the western corn rootworm for 5 generations results in higher behavioral and metabolic resistance and benzoxazinoid-dependent infectivity toward the western corn rootworm. Thus, herbivores that are exposed to a plant defense sequestering herbivore can evolve both behavioral and metabolic resistance to plant defense metabolites, and these traits are associated with higher infectivity toward a defense sequestering herbivore. We conclude that plant defense metabolites that are transferred through adapted herbivores may result in the evolution of resistance in herbivore natural enemies. Our study also identifies plant defense resistance as a potential target for the improvement of biological control agents.
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hal-02457186 , version 1 (15-07-2020)

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Xi Zhang, Cong van Doan, Carla C M Arce, Lingfei Hu, Sandra Gruenig, et al.. Plant defense resistance in natural enemies of a specialist insect herbivore.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019, 116 (46), pp.23174-23181. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1912599116⟩. ⟨hal-02457186⟩
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