Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-x5cpj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-25T20:33:33.890Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Effects of soybean resistance on variability in life history traits of the higher trophic level parasitoid Meteorus pulchricornis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2016

X. Li ,
B. Li ,
G. Xing  and
L. Meng
X. Li
Affiliation:
School of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, P.R. China
B. Li
Affiliation:
School of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, P.R. China
G. Xing
Affiliation:
National Center of Soybean Improvement, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, P.R. China
L. Meng*
Affiliation:
School of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, P.R. China
*
*Author for correspondence Phone/Fax: +86 025-84396394 E-mail: ml@njau.edu.cn
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

To extrapolate the influence of plant cultivars varying in resistance levels to hosts on parasitoid life history traits, we estimated variation in parasitoid developmental and reproductive performances as a function of resistance in soybean cultivars, which were randomly chosen from a line of resistant genotypes. Our study showed that the parasitoid Meteorus pulchricornis varied widely in offspring survival and lifetime fecundity, but varied slightly in development time and adult body size, in response to the soybean cultivars that varied in resistance to the host Spodoptera litura. Furthermore, the variability in survival and lifetime fecundity was different between attacking the 2nd and the 4th instar host larvae, varying more in survival but less in lifetime fecundity when attacking the 4th than 2nd instar larvae. Our study provides further evidence supporting that plant resistance to herbivorous hosts have variable effects on different life history traits of higher trophic level parasitoids.

Keywords

plant defensenatural enemydevelopmental performancelifetime fecundity
Type
Research Papers
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 107 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 1 - 8
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barbosa, P., Saunders, J. & Waldvogel, M. (1982) Plant-mediated variation in herbivore suitability and parasitoid fitness. pp. 63–71 in Visser, J.H. & Minks, A.K. (Eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Insect-plant Relationships. The Netherlands, Wageningen.Google Scholar
Barbosa, P., Saunders, J.A., Kemper, J., Trumbule, R., Olechno, J. & Martinat, P. (1986) Plant allelochemicals and insect parasitoids: effects of nicotine on Cotesia congregata (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Hyposoter annulipes (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 12, 1319–1328.Google Scholar
Barbosa, P., Gross, P. & Kemper, J. (1991) Influence of plant allelochemicals on the tobacco hornworm and its parasitoid, Cotesia Congregata . Ecology 72(5), 1567–1575.Google Scholar
Bates, D.M. (2010) lme4: Mixed-effects Modelling with R. New York, Springer.Google Scholar
Benrey, B., Callejas, A., Rios, L., Oyama, K. & Denno, R.F. (1998) The effects of domestication of Brassica and Phaseolus on the interaction between phytophagous insects and parasitoids. Biological Control 11, 130–140.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berry, J.A. & Walker, G.P. (2004) Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesmael) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae): an exotic polyphagous parasitoid in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 31, 33–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bolker, B.M., Brooks, M.E., Clark, C.J., Geange, S.W., Poulsen, J.R., Stevens, M.H.H. & White, J.S.S. (2009) Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24, 127–135.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Campbell, B.C. & Duffy, S.S. (1979) Tomatine and parasitic wasps: potential incompatibility of plant antibiosis with biological control. Science 205, 700–702.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chen, W., Li, B. & Meng, L. (2011) Host selection and offspring developmental performances of Meteorus pulchricornis on Spodoptera litura larval instars. Chinese Journal of Ecology 30, 1317–1321.Google Scholar
Fuester, R.W., Taylor, P.B., Peng, H. & Swan, K. (1993) Laboratory biology of a uniparental strain of Meteorus pulchricornis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), an exotic larval parasitoid of the gypsy moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86(3), 298–304.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Godfray, H.C.J. (1994) Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology. Princeton, NJ, USA, Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Gols, R. & Harvey, J.A. (2009) Plant-mediated effects in the Brassicaceae on the performance and behaviour of parasitoids. Phytochemistry Reviews 8, 187–206.Google Scholar
Gols, R., Bukovinszky, T., van Dam, N.M., Dicke, M., Bullock, J.M. & Harvey, J.A. (2008) Performance of generalist and specialist herbivores and their endoparasitoids differs on cultivated and wild Brassica populations. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34, 132–143.Google Scholar
Hare, J.D. (2002) Plant genetic variation in tritrophic interactions. pp. 8–43 in Tscharntke, T. & Hawkins, B.A. (Eds) Multitrophic Level Interactions. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Harvey, J.A. (2000) Dynamic effects of parasitism by an endoparasitoid wasp on the development of two host species: implications for host quality and parasitoid fitness. Ecological Entomology 25, 267–278.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harvey, J.A. (2005) Factors affecting the evolution of development strategies in parasitoid wasps: the importance of functional constraints and incorporating complexity. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 117, 1–13.Google Scholar
Harvey, J.A. & Strand, M.R. (2002) The developmental strategies of endoparasitoid wasps vary with host feeding ecology. Ecology 83, 2439–2451.Google Scholar
Harvey, J.A., Harvey, I.F. & Thompson, D.J. (1994) Flexible larval growth allows use of a range of host sizes by a parasitoid wasp. Ecology 75, 1420–1428.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harvey, J.A., Harvey, I.F. & Thompson, D.J. (1995) The effect of host nutrition on growth and development of the parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens . Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 75, 213–220.Google Scholar
Harvey, J.A., van Dam, N.M. & Gols, R. (2003) Interactions over four trophic levels: food plant quality affects development of a hyperparasitoid as mediated through a herbivore and its primary parasitoid. Journal of Animal Ecology 72, 529–531.Google Scholar
Harvey, J.A., Sano, T. & Tanaka, T. (2010) Differential host growth regulation by the solitary endoparasitoid, Meteorus pulchricornis in two hosts of greatly differing mass. Journal of Insect Physiology 56, 1178–1183.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hunter, M.D. (2003) Effects of plant quality on the population ecology of parasitoids. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 5, 1–8.Google Scholar
Johnson, M.T.J. (2008) Bottom-up effects of plant genotype on aphids, ants, and predators. Ecology 89, 145–154.Google Scholar
Kennedy, G.G. & Barbour, J.D. (1992) Resistance variation in natural and managed systems. pp. 13–41 in Fritz, R.S. & Simms, E.L. (Eds) Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens: Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Li, B. & Mills, N. (2004) The influence of temperature on size as an indicator of host quality for the development of a solitary koinobiont parasitoid. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 110, 249–256.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Liu, Y. & Li, B. (2006) Developmental interactions between Spodoptera exigua (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) and its uniparental endoparasitoid, Meteorus pulchricornis (Braconidae: Hymenoptera). Biological Control 38, 264–269.Google Scholar
Liu, Y. & Li, B. (2008) Effects of Helicoverpa armigera (Noctuidae, Lepidoptera) host stages on some developmental parameters of the uniparental endoparasitoid Meteorus pulchricornis (Braconidae, Hymenoptera). Bulletin of Entomological Research 98, 109–114.Google Scholar
Mackauer, M., Sequeira, R. & Otto, M. (1997) Growth and development in parasitoid wasps: adaptation to variable host resources. Vertical food web interactions. pp. 191–203 in Bauer, G., Dettner, K. & Völkl, W. (Eds) Evolutionary Patterns and Driving Forces. Berlin, Germany, Springer.Google Scholar
Maeto, K. (1989) Systematic studies on the tribe Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Japan. V. The pulchricornis group of the genus Meteorus . Japanese Journal of Entomology 53, 581–595.Google Scholar
Ode, P.J. (2006) Plant chemistry and natural enemy fitness: effects on herbivore and natural enemy interactions. Annual Review of Entomology 51, 163–185.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Olson, D.M. & Andow, D.A. (1998) Larval crowding and adult nutrition effects on longevity and fecundity of female Trichogramma nubilale Ertle & Davis (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Environmental Entomology 27, 508–514.Google Scholar
Orr, D.B. & Boethel, D.J. (1986) Influence of plant antibiosis through four trophic levels. Oecologia 70, 242–249.Google Scholar
Rao, G.V.R., Wightman, J.A. & Rao, D.V.R. (1993) World review of the natural enemies and diseases of Spodoptera litura (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 14, 273–284.Google Scholar
R Development Core Team (2014) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project.org/.Google Scholar
Schädler, M., Brandl, R. & Kempel, A. (2010) Host plant genotype determines bottom-up effects in an aphid-parasitoid-predator system. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 135, 162–169.Google Scholar
Schoonhoven, L.M., Van Loon, J.J. & Dicke, M. (2005) Insect-Plant Biology. London, UK, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Sequeira, R. & Mackauer, M. (1992) Nutritional ecology of an insect host-parasitoid association: the pea aphid-Aphidius ervi system. Ecology 73, 183–189.Google Scholar
Shen, J.L. & Wu, Y.D. (1995) Pesticide Resistance and Management of Helicoverpa Armigera. Beijing, China Agricultural Press.Google Scholar
Singer, M.S. & Stireman, J.O. III (2003) Does anti-parasitoid defense explain host-plant selection by a polyphagous caterpillar? Oikos 100, 554–562.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strand, M.R. (2000) Developmental traits and life-history evolution in parasitoids. pp. 139–162 in Hochberg, M.E. & Ives, A.R. (Eds) Parasitoid Population Biology. Princeton, NJ, USA, Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Sznajder, B. & Harvey, J.A. (2003) Second and third trophic level effects of differences in plant species reflect dietary specialisation of herbivores and their endoparasitoids. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 109, 73–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Takashino, K., Kobayashi, H. & Okada, T. (1998) Research for parasitic natural enemies to larvae of two Helicoverpa species in Shikoku. Proceedings of the Association for Plant Protection of Shikoku 33, 49–55.Google Scholar
Thorne, A.D., Pexton, J.J., Dytham, C. & Mayhew, P.J. (2006) Small body size in an insect shifts development, prior to adult eclosion, towards early reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 273, 1099–1103.Google Scholar
Thorpe, K.W. & Barbosa, P. (1986) Effects of consumption of high and low nicotine tobacco by Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) on survival of gregarious endoparasitoid Cotesia congregata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of chemical ecology 12, 1329–1337.Google Scholar
Thurston, R. & Fox, P.M. (1972) Inhibition by nicotine of emergence of Apanteles congregatus from its host, the tobacco hornworm. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65, 547–550.Google Scholar
Turlings, T.C.J. & Benrey, B. (1998) Effects of plant metabolites on the behavior and development of parasitic wasps. EcoScience 5, 321–333.Google Scholar
Underwood, N., Morris, W., Gross, K. & Lockwood, J.R. (2000) Induced resistance to Mexican bean beetles in soybean: variation among genotypes and lack of correlation with constitutive resistance. Oecologia 122, 83–89.Google Scholar
Walters, D. (2011) Plant defense: Warding off Attack by Pathogens, Herbivores and Parasitic Plants. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Wu, Q., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Wang, H., Gai, J. & Yu, D. (2006) Evaluation of resistance of soybean germplasm to cotton worm (Prodenia litura Fabricius). Soybean Science 25, 410–413.Google Scholar
Zhan, Q. & Gai, J. (2000) Evaluation of resistance of soybean germplasm to cotton worm (Prodenia litura). Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology 6, 18–23.Google Scholar