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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad P-IE: Genetics, Host-Plant Resistance, and IPM On-Demand Presentations

Wild tomatoes conscript unique rhizosphere microbial communities to better tolerate herbivory

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    Presenting Author(s)

  • ET

    Emily J. Tronson

    Graduate Research Assistant
    Purdue University
    West Lafayette, Indiana

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    Laramy Enders

    Purdue University
    West Lafayette, Indiana

  • IK

    Ian Kaplan

    Purdue University
    West Lafayette, Indiana

As the root microbiome’s role in plant defenses against insect herbivores becomes clearer, scientific focus has lingered on a single side of plant defense: resistance. Its indispensable counterpart, tolerance, is comparatively overlooked in such investigations, despite its immense value as an evolutionarily sustainable mitigator of herbivore damage. This project seeks to expand our limited understanding of the extent to which tolerance to herbivory may by influenced by rhizosphere microbial communities. Ultimately, this will point to avenues through which plant defenses could be amended in pest management and complement our understanding of the interactions between host plants and their specialist herbivores.