Nitrogen and water availability to tomato plants triggers bottom-up effects on the leafminer <em>Tuta absoluta</em>
2014
Han, Peng | Lavoir, Anne Violette | Le Bot, Jacques | Amiens-Desneux, Edwige | Desneux, Nicolas | Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (ISA) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Unité de recherche Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles (PSH) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) | Environment and Agronomy department of INRA; Chinese government
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. This study examined the effects of various levels of nitrogen inputs (optimal, insufficient and excessive) and water inputs (optimal, low drought and high drought) to tomato plants (<em>Solanum lycopersicum</em>) on survival and development of an invasive tomato leafminer, <em>Tuta absoluta</em> (Meytick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Plant growth i.e. plant height and the number of nodes declined under insufficient or excessive nitrogen treatment. Compared to optimal N, insufficient N treatment decreased leaf N content and increased the carbon/nitrogen ratio (C/N) whereas an excess of N had no effect on both leaf N content and leaf C/N ratio. Sub-optimal nitrogen supplies, water treatments and their interactions, significantly reduced the leafminer survival rate and slowed down its development. Together with the findings from three recent companion studies, we assumed that a combination of changes in nutritional value and chemical defense could explain these observed effects. Furthermore, our findings supported both the ‘‘Plant vigor hypothesis’’ and the ‘‘Nitrogen limitation hypothesis’’
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