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Modifying the Alkylglucosinolate profile in Arabidopsis thaliana alters the Tritrophic interaction with the Herbivore Brevicoryne brassicae and Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae
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Kissen, Ralph, Pope, Tom W., Grant, Murray, Pickett, John A., Rossiter, John T. and Powell, Glen (2009) Modifying the Alkylglucosinolate profile in Arabidopsis thaliana alters the Tritrophic interaction with the Herbivore Brevicoryne brassicae and Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 35 (8). pp. 958-969. doi:10.1007/s10886-009-9677-6 ISSN 0098-0331.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10886-009-9677-6
Abstract
Arabidopsis thaliana was used as an experimental model plant to investigate a tritrophic interaction between the plant, a specialist aphid herbivore, Brevicoryne brassicae, and its natural enemy, the parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. The A. thaliana ecotype Col-5 was transformed with a functional 2-oxoglutarate dependent dioxygenase (BniGSL-ALK) that converts 3-methylsulfinylpropylglucosinolate and 4-methylsulfinylbutylglucosinolate to 2-propenylglucosinolate and 3-butenylglucosinolate, respectively. This transformation results in a change in the glucosinolate hydrolysis profile where 3-butenylisothiocyanate, 2-propenylisothiocyanate and 5-vinyloxazolidine-2-thione are produced in contrast to the wild-type plant where 4-methylsulfinylbutylisothiocyanate is the main product. Performance of B. brassicae was affected negatively by transforming Col-5 with BniGSL-ALK in terms of mean relative growth rates. In a series of behavioral bioassays, naïve D. rapae females were able to discriminate between B. brassicae infested and uninfested Col-5 plants transformed with BniGSL-ALK, with parasitoids showing a preference for B. brassicae infested plants. By contrast, naïve D. rapae females were unable to discriminate between aphid infested and uninfested Col-5 plants. Subsequent air entrainments of B. brassicae infested Col-5 plants transformed with BniGSL-ALK further confirmed the presence of 3-butenylisothiocyanate in the headspace. By contrast, no glucosinolate hydrolysis products were recorded from similarly infested Col-5 plants.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Chemical Ecology | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | ||||
| ISSN: | 0098-0331 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2009 | ||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 958-969 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10886-009-9677-6 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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