Suitability of stressed and vigorous plants to various insect herbivores

• Published in: Oikos Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 228 - 235
• Main Authors: Inbar, Moshe, Doostdar, Hamed, Mayer, Richard T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Copenhagen Munksgaard International Publishers 01.08.2001; Munksgaard International Publishers, Ltd; Blackwell
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Autoecology; Bemisia argentifolii; Biological and medical sciences; Dehydration; Fertilizers; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Heliothis zea; Herbivores; Host plants; Insect larvae; Leafminers; Liriomyza trifolii; Lycopersicon esculentum; Phytophagous insects; Plant growth; Plant stress; Plants; Plants and fungi; Physiological condition; Growth; Insecta; Agromyzidae; Liriomyza trifolii; Pest; Bemisia argentifolii; Phytophagous; Homoptera; Helicoverpa zea; Dicotyledones; Host plant; Angiospermae; Lycopersicon esculentum; Chemical composition; Solanaceae; Interspecific comparison; Stress; Vegetable crop; Animal plant relation; Arthropoda; Lepidoptera; Defense mechanism; Aleyrodidae; Spermatophyta; Vigor; Noctuidae; Invertebrata; Diptera
• ISSN: 0030-1299; 1600-0706
• DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.940203.x

We conducted a controlled experiment to test the plant vigor and the plant stress hypotheses. The two hypotheses associate plant physiological conditions to insect feeding mode and performance. We exposed tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, to different types of growing conditions: optimal (vigorous pl...