Geographic variation in host selection behaviour and reproductive success in the stemborer parasitoid Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Publication Type

Journal Article

Journal Name

New Phytologist

Publication Date

12-1-2016

Abstract

(Table presented.). Summary: The mediation of volatile secondary metabolites in signalling between plants and other organisms has long been seen as presenting opportunities for sustainable crop protection. Initially, exploitation of interactions between plants and other organisms, particularly insect pests, foundered because of difficulties in delivering, sustainably, the signal systems for crop protection. We now have mounting and, in some cases, clear practical evidence for successful delivery by companion cropping or next-generation genetic modification (GM). At the same time, the type of plant signalling being exploited has expanded to signalling from plants to organisms antagonistic to pests, and to plant stress-induced, or primed, plant-to-plant signalling for defence and growth stimulation.

Keywords

agriculture, companion plants, genetic modification (GM), induced defence, plant communication, plant volatile-mediated signalling, push–pull, semiochemicals

PubMed ID

27874990

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