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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 11-12, Pages 1105-1116Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01222-1
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Chrysanthemumxmorifolium; Frankliniella occidentalis; Jasmonic acid; Plant resistance; Polyphenol oxidase; Trichome density
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- Technology Foundation STW, project 'Green Defense against Pests' (GAP) [13553]
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Western flower thrips (WFT),Frankliniella occidentalis, is a serious insect pest of Chrysanthemum [ChrysanthemumxmorifoliumRamat. (Asteraceae)]. Here we have investigated whether genotypic variation in constitutive and inducible resistance to WFT correlates with phenotypic differences in leaf trichome density and the activity of the defense-related enzyme polyphenol oxidase (PPO) in chrysanthemum. Non-glandular and glandular leaf trichome densities significantly varied among ninety-five chrysanthemum cultivars. Additional analyses in a subset of these cultivars, differing in leaf trichome density, revealed significant variation in PPO activities and resistance to WFT as well. Constitutive levels of trichome densities and PPO activity, however, did not correlate with chrysanthemum resistance to WFT. Further tests showed that exogenous application of the phytohormone jasmonic acid (JA) increased non-glandular trichome densities, PPO activity and chrysanthemum resistance to WFT, and that these effects were cultivar dependent. In addition, no tradeoff between constitutive and inducible resistance to WFT was observed. JA-mediated induction of WFT resistance, however, did not correlate with changes in leaf trichome densities nor PPO activity levels. Taken together, our results suggest that chrysanthemum can display both high levels of constitutive and inducible resistance to WFT, and that leaf trichome density and PPO activity may not play a relevant role in chrysanthemum defenses against WFT.
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