Microbial Influence on Plant-Insect Interaction

Abstract

Plants and insects live in a microbial world, and the co-existence have shaped their ecology and evolution. These microbial allies play an essential role in the health, well-being, and vigor of their hosts and are often considered as “hidden players” in plant-insect interaction. The present chapter attempts to cover the contribution of microbes as drivers of plant-insect interaction where the microbial companions directly or indirectly influence the plant-insect interaction. The chapter also emphasizes the diversity of microbial communities linked with both plants and insects and their contribution toward plant-insect interaction from an ecological standpoint. It further deals with the recent updates on the use of microorganisms in pest management and the implications of microbes as a toolbox in future IPM strategies.

Keywords

Herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs); Hidden allies; Host-microbe interaction; Metagenomics; Microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMP); Microbes; Mycorrhizainduced resistance (MIR); Symbiosis; Toolbox

Published in

Title: Plant-Pest Interactions: From Molecular Mechanisms to Chemical Ecology
Publisher: Springer

SLU Authors

• Chakraborty, Amrita

  • Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology
Microbiology

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2467-7_14
• ISBN: 978-981-15-2466-0
• eISBN: 978-981-15-2467-7

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/129806