Volatile Organic Compounds Regulating Multitrophic (Plant–Pest–Antagonist) and Multilevel (Belowground–Aboveground) Interactions
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest and Vector Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the chemical ecology of volatile organic compounds that regulate plant-insect interactions; the set up of monitoring plans for invasive pests, native antagonists, introduced antagonists; set up of mass-rearing protocols for natural antagonists to be used for the biological control of invasive pests
Interests: the study of population genetics of some invasive exotic pests, the complex of indigenous parasitoids that adapted to attack them and their symbionts manipulators of reproduction; the collection and characterization of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that regulate the multitrophic interactions among plant symbionts, plant pests and pests’ antagonists by the mass spectrometry
Interests: plant multitrophic interactions; aboveground–belowground interactions; plant root symbionts; sustainable plant protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chemical compounds regulating multitrophic and multilevel interactions are considered innovative tools to be exploited for the sustainable protection of agricultural and forest systems.
These compounds include those induced aboveground by a herbivore’s attack and that guide herbivores’ natural antagonists (insect predators and parasitoids) to their prey and host targets, but also those induced by root symbionts.
In recent years, it has been demonstrated that root colonization by symbionts belonging to the genus Trichoderma or by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) alters the profile of VOCs released by either healthy or herbivore-infested plants, affecting, in turn, the behavioural response of herbivores’ antagonists.
This Special Issue will collect papers dealing with all aspects relative to VOC-mediated communication, aboveground and belowground, that could be exploited to improve the sustainable protection of agricultural and forest systems.
Dr. Luigi Iodice
Dr. Liberata Gualtieri
Dr. Emilio Guerrieri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- behavioral ecology of plant–pest–insect predators’ and parasitoids’ interactions
- root symbionts and induction of VOC in healthy and herbivore-attacked plants
- ecophysiology of antagonists’ behaviour (EAG)
- volatilome
