An Innate Preference of Bumblebees for Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by Phaseolus vulgaris Plants Infected With Three Different Viruses

An Innate Preference of Bumblebees for Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by Phaseolus vulgaris Plants Infected With Three Different Viruses

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV)-infected tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) attractive to bumblebees (Bombus terrestris L.), which are important tomato pollinators, but which do not transmit CMV. We investigated if this effect was unique to the tomato-CMV path...

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Main Authors: Netsai Margareth Mhlanga, Alex M. Murphy, Francis O. Wamonje, Nik J. Cunniffe, John C. Caulfield, Beverley J. Glover, John P. Carr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
bumblebee
cucumovirus
innate preference
pollination
potyvirus
semiochemical
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.626851/full

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