L-DOPA enhances indirect defences

L-DOPA functions as a plant pheromone for belowground anti-herbivory communication

New paper by Pasquale Cascone, Jozsef Vuts, Michael A. Birkett, Sarah Dewhirst, Sergio Rasmann, John A. Pickett, Emilio Guerrieri, published online in February 2023

Plant-plant communication belowground is an almost unexplored field that is rich of information that could be exploited for the sustainable plant protection based on bio-derived tools and strategies. In this paper, the compound l-DOPA released by aphid infested plants elicits the release of compounds attractive towards the natural of aphids in neighbouring uninfested conspecific travelling in the soil.

The paper was published in Ecology Letters in February 2023: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14164

Modification date : 29 August 2023 | Publication date : 18 April 2023 | Redactor : Emilio Guerrieri