Virus infection mediates the effects of elevated CO2 on plants and vectors

Piotr Trebicki; Rebecca K. Vandegeer; Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez; Kevin S. Powell; Beatriz Dader; Angela J. Freeman; Alan L. Yen; Glenn J. Fitzgerald; Jo E. Luck

doi:10.1038/srep22785

Virus infection mediates the effects of elevated CO2 on plants and vectors

Piotr Trebicki, Rebecca K. Vandegeer, Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez, Kevin S. Powell, Beatriz Dader, Angela J. Freeman, Alan L. Yen, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Jo E. Luck

Western Sydney University

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

63 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has increased significantly and is projected to double by 2100. To increase current food production levels, understanding how pests and diseases respond to future climate driven by increasing CO2 is imperative. We investigated the effects of elevated CO2 (eCO2) on the interactions among wheat (cv. Yitpi), Barley yellow dwarf virus and an important pest and virus vector, the bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi), by examining aphid life history, feeding behavior and plant physiology and biochemistry. Our results showed for the first time that virus infection can mediate effects of eCO2 on plants and pathogen vectors. Changes in plant N concentration influenced aphid life history and behavior, and N concentration was affected by virus infection under eCO2. We observed a reduction in aphid population size and increased feeding damage on noninfected plants under eCO2 but no changes to population and feeding on virus-infected plants irrespective of CO2 treatment. We expect potentially lower future aphid populations on noninfected plants but no change or increased aphid populations on virus-infected plants therefore subsequent virus spread. Our findings underscore the complexity of interactions between plants, insects and viruses under future climate with implications for plant disease epidemiology and crop production.

Original language	English
Article number	22785
Number of pages	11
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22785
Publication status	Published - 2016

Open Access - Access Right Statement

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Keywords

carbon dioxide
plants
virus diseases

Access to Document

10.1038/srep22785

Cite this

@article{50d2c0617faa4163a9dd4de36c937795,

title = "Virus infection mediates the effects of elevated CO2 on plants and vectors",

abstract = "Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has increased significantly and is projected to double by 2100. To increase current food production levels, understanding how pests and diseases respond to future climate driven by increasing CO2 is imperative. We investigated the effects of elevated CO2 (eCO2) on the interactions among wheat (cv. Yitpi), Barley yellow dwarf virus and an important pest and virus vector, the bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi), by examining aphid life history, feeding behavior and plant physiology and biochemistry. Our results showed for the first time that virus infection can mediate effects of eCO2 on plants and pathogen vectors. Changes in plant N concentration influenced aphid life history and behavior, and N concentration was affected by virus infection under eCO2. We observed a reduction in aphid population size and increased feeding damage on noninfected plants under eCO2 but no changes to population and feeding on virus-infected plants irrespective of CO2 treatment. We expect potentially lower future aphid populations on noninfected plants but no change or increased aphid populations on virus-infected plants therefore subsequent virus spread. Our findings underscore the complexity of interactions between plants, insects and viruses under future climate with implications for plant disease epidemiology and crop production.",

keywords = "carbon dioxide, plants, virus diseases",

author = "Piotr Trebicki and Vandegeer, {Rebecca K.} and Bosque-Perez, {Nilsa A.} and Powell, {Kevin S.} and Beatriz Dader and Freeman, {Angela J.} and Yen, {Alan L.} and Fitzgerald, {Glenn J.} and Luck, {Jo E.}",

year = "2016",

doi = "10.1038/srep22785",

language = "English",

volume = "6",

journal = "Scientific Reports",

issn = "2045-2322",

publisher = "Nature Research",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Virus infection mediates the effects of elevated CO2 on plants and vectors

AU - Trebicki, Piotr

AU - Vandegeer, Rebecca K.

AU - Bosque-Perez, Nilsa A.

AU - Powell, Kevin S.

AU - Dader, Beatriz

AU - Freeman, Angela J.

AU - Yen, Alan L.

AU - Fitzgerald, Glenn J.

AU - Luck, Jo E.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has increased significantly and is projected to double by 2100. To increase current food production levels, understanding how pests and diseases respond to future climate driven by increasing CO2 is imperative. We investigated the effects of elevated CO2 (eCO2) on the interactions among wheat (cv. Yitpi), Barley yellow dwarf virus and an important pest and virus vector, the bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi), by examining aphid life history, feeding behavior and plant physiology and biochemistry. Our results showed for the first time that virus infection can mediate effects of eCO2 on plants and pathogen vectors. Changes in plant N concentration influenced aphid life history and behavior, and N concentration was affected by virus infection under eCO2. We observed a reduction in aphid population size and increased feeding damage on noninfected plants under eCO2 but no changes to population and feeding on virus-infected plants irrespective of CO2 treatment. We expect potentially lower future aphid populations on noninfected plants but no change or increased aphid populations on virus-infected plants therefore subsequent virus spread. Our findings underscore the complexity of interactions between plants, insects and viruses under future climate with implications for plant disease epidemiology and crop production.

AB - Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has increased significantly and is projected to double by 2100. To increase current food production levels, understanding how pests and diseases respond to future climate driven by increasing CO2 is imperative. We investigated the effects of elevated CO2 (eCO2) on the interactions among wheat (cv. Yitpi), Barley yellow dwarf virus and an important pest and virus vector, the bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi), by examining aphid life history, feeding behavior and plant physiology and biochemistry. Our results showed for the first time that virus infection can mediate effects of eCO2 on plants and pathogen vectors. Changes in plant N concentration influenced aphid life history and behavior, and N concentration was affected by virus infection under eCO2. We observed a reduction in aphid population size and increased feeding damage on noninfected plants under eCO2 but no changes to population and feeding on virus-infected plants irrespective of CO2 treatment. We expect potentially lower future aphid populations on noninfected plants but no change or increased aphid populations on virus-infected plants therefore subsequent virus spread. Our findings underscore the complexity of interactions between plants, insects and viruses under future climate with implications for plant disease epidemiology and crop production.

KW - carbon dioxide

KW - plants

KW - virus diseases

UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:43433

U2 - 10.1038/srep22785

DO - 10.1038/srep22785

M3 - Article

SN - 2045-2322

VL - 6

JO - Scientific Reports

JF - Scientific Reports

M1 - 22785

ER -

Virus infection mediates the effects of elevated CO2 on plants and vectors

Abstract

Open Access - Access Right Statement

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this