Phytophagous arthropods and a pathogen sharing a host plant: evidence for indirect plant-mediated interactions.

In ecological systems, indirect interactions between plant pathogens and phytophagous arthropods can arise when infestation by a first attacker alters the common host plant so that although a second attacker could be spatially or temporally separated from the first one, the former could be affected....

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Main Authors: Raphaëlle Mouttet, Philippe Bearez, Cécile Thomas, Nicolas Desneux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3097179?pdf=render