Department of Biology & Environment; Faculty of Natural Sciences; University of Haifa-Oranim; Tivon, Israel.
Plant Signal Behav. 2013 Jul;8(7):e24907. doi: 10.4161/psb.24907. Epub 2013 Jul 9.
Aposematism (warning) signaling is a common defensive mechanism toward predatory or herbivorous animals, i.e., interactions between different trophic levels. I propose that it should be considered at least as a working hypothesis that chemical aposematism operates between certain host plants and their plant predators, parasitic plants, and that although they are also plants, they belong to a higher trophic level. Specific host plant genotypes emit known repelling chemical signals toward parasitic plants, which reduce the level of, slow the directional parasite growth (attack) toward the signaling hosts, or even cause parasitic plants to grow away from them in response to these chemicals. Chemical host aposematism toward parasitic plants may be a common but overlooked defense from parasitic plants.
警戒信号(警告)是一种常见的防御机制,用于防御捕食者或草食动物,即不同营养级之间的相互作用。我提出,应该至少将化学警戒信号作用于某些宿主植物与其植物捕食者、寄生植物之间视为一个工作假说,尽管它们也是植物,但它们属于更高的营养级。特定的宿主植物基因型会向寄生植物发出已知的排斥性化学信号,从而降低寄生植物的水平,减缓其朝向发出信号的宿主植物的定向生长(攻击)速度,甚至使寄生植物在这些化学物质的作用下远离它们。对寄生植物的化学宿主警戒可能是寄生植物常见但被忽视的防御机制。