Hel** plants to deal with insects: the role of beneficial soil-borne microbes

A Pineda, SJ Zheng, JJA van Loon, CMJ Pieterse… - Trends in plant …, 2010‏ - cell.com
Several soil-borne microbes such as mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting
rhizobacteria can help plants to deal with biotic and abiotic stresses via plant growth …

Impacts of plant symbiotic fungi on insect herbivores: mutualism in a multitrophic context

SE Hartley, AC Gange - Annual review of entomology, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
We consider how fungi that form symbiotic associations with plants interact with insect
herbivores attacking the same plants. Both endophytes and mycorrhizae have significant …

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead?

AT Classen, MK Sundqvist, JA Henning… - …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global change is altering species distributions and thus interactions among organisms.
Organisms live in concert with thousands of other species, some beneficial, some …

The Park Grass Experiment 1856–2006: its contribution to ecology

J Silvertown, P Poulton, E Johnston… - Journal of …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 The Park Grass Experiment, begun in 1856, is the oldest ecological experiment
in existence. Its value to science has changed and grown since it was founded to answer …

Beneficial microbes in a changing environment: are they always hel** plants to deal with insects?

A Pineda, M Dicke, CMJ Pieterse… - Functional Ecology, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants have a complex immune system that defends them against attackers (eg herbivores
and microbial pathogens) but that also regulates the interactions with mutualistic organisms …

The evolution of resistance and tolerance to herbivores

J Núñez-Farfán, J Fornoni… - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol …, 2007‏ - annualreviews.org
Tolerance and resistance are two different plant defense strategies against herbivores.
Empirical evidence in natural populations reveals that individual plants allocate resources …

Fungal endophytes can eliminate the plant growth–defence trade‐off

DA Bastías, E Gianoli, PE Gundel - New Phytologist, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
A trade‐off between growth and defence functions is commonly observed in plants. We
propose that the association of plants with Epichloë fungal endophytes may eliminate this …

Soil conservation practices for insect pest management in highly disturbed agroecosystems–a review

A Alyokhin, B Nault, B Brown - Entomologia Experimentalis et …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Decline in soil health is a serious worldwide problem that decreases complexity and stability
of agricultural ecosystems, commonly making them more prone to outbreaks of herbivorous …

Plant herbivore protection by arbuscular mycorrhizas: a role for fungal diversity?

A Frew, PM Antunes, DD Cameron… - New …, 2022‏ - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
The symbiosis between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, subphylum Glomeromycotina,
and terrestrial plants is one of the most widespread and arguably most successful plant …

Root signals that mediate mutualistic interactions in the rhizosphere

S Rasmann, TCJ Turlings - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Roots release a highly diverse group of compounds in the rhizosphere.•Most of
these compounds are involved in mutualistic interaction with soil-dwelling organisms.•Such …