Pine terpenoid defences in the mountain pine beetle epidemic and in other conifer pest interactions: specialized enemies are eating holes into a diverse, dynamic and durable defence system
Pine terpenoid defences in the mountain pine beetle epidemic and in other conifer pest interactions: specialized enemies are eating holes into a diverse, dynamic and durable defence system
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10.1093/treephys/tps065
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2012-08-01
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Bohlmann, Joerg
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Bohlmann, Joerg
During the last 15 years, an epidemic of mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) and its associated fungal pathogens (eg, Grosmannia clavigera Robinson-Jeffrey & RW Davidson) has swept through~ 15 million hectares of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Douglas) forests in western Canada and has also infested large areas of pine forests in the northwestern USA. The pine-killing symbiosis of MPB and bluestaining fungi has left behind landscapes of dead trees, an economic scramble and the potential for massively increased carbon emissions from decaying trees (Kurz et al. 2008). Fuelled by an overabundance of suitable host trees and following the trail blazed by warming climates, rapidly growing populations of the MPB/fungus complex have continued to defy some traditional predictions as to when and where this epidemic would reach its limits: we now know that the MPB epidemic has spread further north and climbed into higher elevations than predicted (Samarasekera, 2012); it has crossed the Rocky Mountain ‘barrier’from west to east; and—as recently documented with molecular markers (Cullingham et al. 2011)—the MPB has successfully expanded its eastern host range from lodgepole pine into Jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.). Jack pine has become a frontline host species through which the MPB and its vectored fungal pathogens have gained entrance into a wide landscape of boreal forest east of the Rocky Mountains (Safranyik et al. 2010, Cullingham et al. 2011). Unlike its sibling species, lodgepole pine, whose range is historically overlapping with that of MPB and its fungi, Jack pine may not have co-evolved its defences with the MPB/fungus disease system, which offers new uncertainties as to how the epidemic will play out. The major defences of pines against insect pests and fungi include specialized chemicals such as terpenoids of oleoresin and phenolics, as well as anatomical structures such as thick bark, constitutive and traumatic resin ducts and specialized phloem parenchyma cells (Franceschi et al. 2005). Oleoresin presents both a physical and chemical defence system against stem-boring insects and is composed mostly of monoterpenes and diterpene resin acids (Trapp and Croteau 2001, Keeling and Bohlmann 2006a, 2006b). As a physical barrier of complex chemical composition, resin flow at wound sites upon beetle attack, mobilization of resin flow and additional formation of resin directed towards the sites of bark beetle and fungal activity after entering the tree, as well as variation of resin volume and composition, present a complex set of parameters that have to be considered in the assessment of host tree defence capacity and how this capacity may be affected by tree health, environment and pests (Raffa et al. 2005, Boone et al. 2011, Ott et al. 2011, Clark et al. 2012, Novick et al. 2012). Terpenoid defences, including accumulation of oleoresin and volatile emissions, and their underlying biochemical pathways are well characterized in several conifer species (Keeling and Bohlmann 2006a, 2006b). Species of spruce such as Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.), white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) have been established as a reference system for information on anatomical, chemical, biochemical, molecular and genomic aspects of conifer terpenoid defences (Zulak and Bohlmann 2010, Hall et al., 2011, Hamberger et al., 2011, Keeling et al. 2011). Species of spruce have also been characterized for the roles of terpenoids in tree–insect or tree–fungal interactions (eg, Byun-McKay et al. 2006, Zeneli et al. 2006,