Negative Effects of Rhizobacteria Association on Plant Recruitment of Generalist Predators.

ABSTRACT: Plant-associated microbes can influence above- and belowground interactions between plants and other organisms and thus have significant potential for use in the management of agricultural ecosystems. However, fully realizing this potential will require improved understanding of the specific ways in which microbes influence plant ecology, which are both more complex and less well studied than the direct effects of microbes on host-plant physiology. Microbial effects on mutualistic and antagonistic interactions between plants and insects are of particular interest in this regard. This study examines the effects of two strains of Pseudomonas rhizobacteria on the direct and indirect (predator-mediated) resistance of tomato plants to a generalist herbivore (Spodoptera littoralis) and associate

SUBMITTER: Loser TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9003080 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature