Interspecific variation in spruce constitutive and induced defenses in response to a bark beetle fungal symbiont provides insight into traits associated with resistance.
Interspecific variation in spruce constitutive and induced defenses in response to a bark beetle fungal symbiont provides insight into traits associated with resistance.
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云杉对树皮甲虫真菌共生体的本构防御和诱导防御的种间变异提供了对与抗性相关的性状的深入了解。
DOI:
10.1093/treephys/tpaa170
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
Javier E. Mercado
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作者:
D. Ott;T. S. Davis;Javier E. Mercado
Differences in defensive traits of tree species may predict why some conifers are susceptible to bark beetle-fungal complexes and others are not. A symbiotic fungus (Leptographium abietinum) associated with the tree-killing bark beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) is phytopathogenic to host trees and may hasten tree decline during colonization by beetles, but defense responses of mature trees to the fungus have not been experimentally examined. To test the hypothesis that interspecific variation in spruce resistance is explained by defense traits we compared constitutive (bark thickness and constitutive resin ducts) and induced defenses (resin flow, monoterpene composition, concentration, phloem lesion formation, and traumatic resin ducts) between two sympatric spruces: Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii, a susceptible host) and blue spruce (P. pungens, a resistant host) in response to fungal inoculation. Four central findings emerged: (1) blue spruce has thicker outer bark and thinner phloem than Engelmann spruce, which may restrict fungal access to phloem and result in less beetle-available resource overall; (2) both spruce species induce monoterpenes in response to inoculation but blue spruce has higher constitutive monoterpene levels, induces monoterpenes more rapidly, and induces higher concentrations over a period of time consistent with spruce beetle attack duration; (3) Engelmann and blue spruce differed in the monoterpenes they upregulated in response to fungal inoculation: blue spruce upregulated α-pinene, terpinolene, and γ-terpinene, but Engelmann spruce upregulated 3-carene and linalool; and (4) blue spruce has a higher frequency of constitutive resin ducts and produces more traumatic resin ducts in annual growth increments than Engelmann spruce, though Engelmann spruce produces more resin following aseptic wounding or fungal inoculation. These findings suggest that higher constitutive resin duct densities and monoterpene concentrations, as well as the ability to rapidly induce specific monoterpenes in response to L. abietinum inoculation, are phenotypic traits associated with hosts resistant to spruce beetle colonization.
影响因子:
20.5
作者:
Erb, Matthias;Meldau, Stefan;Howe, Gregg A.
通讯作者:
Howe, Gregg A.