differential performance and parasitism of caterpillars on maize inbred lines with distinctly different herbivore-induced volatile emissions微分的性能和寄生幼虫与截然不同的玉米自交系herbivore-induced挥发排放.pdfVIP

Differential Performance and Parasitism of Caterpillars on Maize Inbred Lines with Distinctly Different Herbivore-Induced Volatile Emissions 1 1 2¤ 1 Thomas Degen , Nenad Bakalovic , David Bergvinson , Ted C. J. Turlings * ˆ ˆ 1 Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Research in Chemical Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2 Centro International de ´ ´ ´ Mejoramiento de Maız y Trigo (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico Abstract Plant volatiles induced by insect feeding are known to attract natural enemies of the herbivores. Six maize inbred lines that showed distinctly different patterns of volatile emission in laboratory assays were planted in randomized plots in the Central Mexican Highlands to test their ability to recruit parasitic wasps under field conditions. The plants were artificially infested with neonate larvae of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda, and two of its main endoparasitoids, Campoletis sonorensis and Cotesia marginiventris, were released in the plots. Volatiles were collected from equally treated reference plants in the neighbourhood of the experimental field. The cumulative amount of 36 quantified volatile compounds determined for each line was in good accordance with findings from the laboratory; there was an almost 15-fold difference in total emission between the two extreme lines. We found significant differences among the lines with respect to the numbers of armyworms rec