Extrafloral nectary phenotypic plasticity is damage- and resource-dependent in Vicia faba

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 583-585

  Mondor, Edward B ^a,b   Tremblay, Michelle N ^a   Messing, Russell H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Herbivory; Inducible defence; Mutualism; Nectaries; Polyphenism

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; DAMAGE; HERBIVORY; LEGUME; MUTUALISM; NATURAL ENEMY; NECTARY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERBIVORY; LEAF DAMAGE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLASTICITY; POLYPHENISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VICIA FABA;

VICIA FABA;

EID: 33845577218     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0527     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Baldwin, I. T. 1998 Jasmonate-induced responses are costly but benefit plants under attack in native populations. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 95, 8113-8118. (doi:10.1073/pnas.95.14.8113)
2. Beattie, A. J. 1985 The evolutionary ecology of ant-plant mutualisms. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
3. Bentley, B. L. 1977 Extrafloral nectaries and protection by pugnacious bodyguards. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 8, 407-427. (doi:10.1146/annurev.es.08. 110177.002203)
4. Denison, R. F. 2000 Legume sanctions and the evolution of symbiotic cooperation by rhizobia. Am. Nat. 156, 567-576. (doi:10.1086/316994)
5. Graham, P. H. 1998 Symbiotic nitrogen fixation. In Principles and applications of soil microbiology (ed. D. M. Sylvia, J. J. Fuhrmann, P. G. Hartel & D. A. Zuberer), pp. 325-347. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
6. Heil, M. & McKey, D. 2003 Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 34, 425-453. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132410)
7. Heil, M., Fiala, B., Baumann, B. & Linsenmair, K. E. 2000 Temporal, spatial and biotic variations in extrafloral nectar secretion by Macaranga tanarius. Funct. Ecol. 14, 749-757. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2435.2000.00480.x)
8. Heil, M., Fiala, B., Maschwitz, U. & Linsenmair, K. E. 2001a On benefits of indirect defence: short- and long-term studies of antiherbivore protection via mutualistic ants. Oecologia 126, 395-403. (doi:10.1007/ s004420000532)
9. Heil, M., Hilpert, A., Fiala, B. & Linsenmair, K. E. 2001b Nutrient availability and indirect (biotic) defense in a Malaysian ant-plant. Oecologia 126, 404-408. (doi:10. 1007/s004420000534)
10. Herms, D. A. & Mattson, W. J. 1992 The dilemma of plants: to grow or defend. Quart. Rev. Biol. 67, 283-335. (doi:10.1086/417659)
11. Huxley, C. R. & Cutler, D. F. 1991 Ant-plant interactions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
12. Johnson, N. C., Graham, J. H. & Smith, F. A. 1997 Functioning of mycorrhizal associations along the mutualism-parasitism continuum. New Phytol. 135, 575-586. (doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.1997.00729.x)
13. Karban, R. & Baldwin, I. T. 1997 Induced responses to herbivory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
14. Klironomos, J. N. 2003 Variation in plant response to native and exotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology 84, 2292-2301.
15. Koide, R. T. 1991 Nutrient supply, nutrient demand and plant response to mycorrhizal infection. New Phytol. 117, 365-386. (doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1991. tb00001.x)
16. McKey, D. 1974 Adaptive patterns in alkaloid physiology. Am. Nat. 108, 305-320. (doi:10.1086/282909)
17. Mondor, E. B. & Addicott, J. F. 2003 Conspicuous extrafloral nectaries are inducible in Vicia faba. Ecol. Lett. 6, 495-497. (doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00457.x)
18. Moran, N. A. 1992 The evolutionary maintenance of alternative phenotypes. Am. Nat. 139, 971-989. (doi:10. 1086/285369)
19. Pyke, G. H. 1991 What does it cost a plant to produce floral nectar? Nature 350, 58-59. (doi:10.1038/350058a0)
20. Rhoades, D. F. 1979 Evolution of plant chemical defense against herbivores. In Herbivores: their interaction with secondary plant metabolites (ed. G. A. Risenthal & D. H. Janzen), pp. 4-53. New York, NY: Academic Press.
21. Rosenzweig, M. L. 2002 The distraction hypothesis depends on relatively cheap extrafloral nectaries. Evol. Ecol. Res. 4, 307-311.
22. SAS Institute, Inc. 2005 JMP start statistics, 3rd edn. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole-Thomson.
23. Simms, E. L. & Taylor, D. L. 2002 Partner choice in nitrogen-fixation mutualisms of legumes and rhizobia. Integr. Comp. Biol. 42, 369-380. (doi:10.1093/icb/42.2.369)
24. Southwick, E. E. 1984 Photosynthate allocation to floral nectar a neglected energy investment. Ecology 65, 1775-1779. (doi:10.2307/1937773)
25. Stamp, N. 2003 Out of the quagmire of plant defense hypotheses. Quart. Rev. Biol. 78, 23-55. (doi:10.1086/367580)
26. Stephenson, A. G. 1982 The role of the extrafloral nectaries of Catalpa speciosa in limiting herbivory and increasing fruit production. Ecology 63, 663-669. (doi:10.2307/1936786)
27. Tiffin, P. & Inouye, B. 2000 Measuring tolerance to herbivory: accuracy and precision of estimates made using natural versus imposed damage. Evolution 54, 1024-1029. (doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2000)054[1024:M TTHAA]2.3.CO;2)
28. Tollman, R. & Harvell, C. D. 1999 The ecology and evolution of inducible defenses. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
29. Wackers, F. L. & Wunderlin, R. 1999 Induction of cotton extrafloral nectar production in response to herbivory does not require a herbivore-specific elicitor. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 91, 149-154. (doi:10.1023/A:1003618617497)