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Felton GW, Donato K, Del Vecchio RJ, et al. Activation of plant foliar oxidases by insect feeding reduces nutritive quality of foliage for noctuid herbivores. J Chem Ecol. 1989;15(12):2667-94doi: 10.1007/BF01014725.
Felton, G. W., Donato, K., Del Vecchio, R. J., & Duffey, S. S. (1989). Activation of plant foliar oxidases by insect feeding reduces nutritive quality of foliage for noctuid herbivores. Journal of chemical ecology, 15(12), 2667-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014725
Felton, G W, et al. "Activation of plant foliar oxidases by insect feeding reduces nutritive quality of foliage for noctuid herbivores." Journal of chemical ecology vol. 15,12 (1989): 2667-94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014725
Felton GW, Donato K, Del Vecchio RJ, Duffey SS. Activation of plant foliar oxidases by insect feeding reduces nutritive quality of foliage for noctuid herbivores. J Chem Ecol. 1989 Dec;15(12):2667-94. doi: 10.1007/BF01014725. PMID: 24271680.
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J Chem Ecol. 1989 Dec;15(12):2667-94. doi: 10.1007/BF01014725.

Activation of plant foliar oxidases by insect feeding reduces nutritive quality of foliage for noctuid herbivores.

Journal of chemical ecology

G W Felton, K Donato, R J Del Vecchio, S S Duffey

Affiliations

  1. Department of Entomology, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, California.

PMID: 24271680 DOI: 10.1007/BF01014725

Abstract

The foliage and fruit of the tomato plantLycopersicon esculentum contains polyphenol oxidases (PPO) and peroxidases (POD) that are compartmentally separated from orthodihydroxyphenolic substrates in situ. However, when leaf tissue is damaged by insect feeding, the enzyme and phenolic substrates come in contact, resulting in the rapid oxidation of phenolics to orthoquinones. When the tomato fruitwormHeliothis zea or the beet army-wormSpodoptera exigua feed on tomato foliage, a substantial amount of the ingested chlorogenic acid is oxidized to chlorogenoquinone by PPO in the insect gut. Additionally, the digestive enzymes of the fruitworm have the potential to further activate foliar oxidase activity in the gut. Chlorogenoquinone is a highly reactive electrophilic molecule that readily binds cova-lently to nucleophilic groups of amino acids and proteins. In particular, the -SH and -NH2 groups of amino acids are susceptible to binding or alkylation. In experiments with tomato foliage, the relative growth rate of the fruitworm was negatively correlated with PPO activity. As the tomato plant matures, foliar PPO activity may increase nearly 10-fold while the growth rate of the fruitworm is severely depressed. In tomato fruit, the levels of PPO are highest in small immature fruit but are essentially negligible in mature fruit. The growth rate of larvae on fruit was also negatively correlated with PPO activity, with the fastest larval growth rate occurring when larvae fed on mature fruit. The reduction in larval growth is proposed to result from the alkylation of amino acids/protein byo-quinones, and the subsequent reduction in the nutritive quality of foliage. This alkylation reduces the digestibility of dietary protein and the bioavailability of amino acids. We believe that this mechanism of digestibility reduction may be extrapolatable to other plant-insect systems because of the ubiquitous cooccurrence of PPO and phenolic substrates among vascular plant species.

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