Sugarcane multitrophic interactions: Integrating belowground and aboveground organisms



Document title: Sugarcane multitrophic interactions: Integrating belowground and aboveground organisms
Journal: Genetics and molecular biology
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000459147
ISSN: 1415-4757
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Institutions: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Piracicaba, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Year:
Volumen: 46
Number: 1
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Descriptivo
English abstract Sugarcane is a crop of major importance used mainly for sugar and biofuel production, and many additional applications of its byproducts are being developed. Sugarcane cultivation is plagued by many insect pests and pathogens that reduce sugarcane yields overall. Recently emerging studies have shown complex multitrophic interactions in cultivated areas, such as the induction of sugarcane defense-related proteins by insect herbivory that function against fungal pathogens that commonly appear after mechanical damage. Fungi and viruses infecting sugarcane also modulate insect behavior, for example, by causing changes in volatile compounds responsible for insect attraction or repelling natural vector enemies via a mechanism that increases pathogen dissemination from infected plants to healthy ones. Interestingly, the fungus Fusarium verticillioides is capable of being vertically transmitted to insect offspring, ensuring its persistence in the field. Understanding multitrophic complexes is important to develop better strategies for controlling pathosystems affecting sugarcane and other important crops and highlights the importance of not only studying binary interactions but also adding as many variables as possible to effectively translate laboratory research to real-life conditions
Disciplines: Biología
Keyword: Angiospermas,
Ecología,
Caña de azúcar,
Interacciones ecológicas
Keyword: Angiosperms,
Ecology,
Sugar cane,
Ecological interactions
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