Can Molecularly Engineered Plant Galls Help to Ease the Problem of World Food Shortage (and Our Dependence on Pollinating Insects)? [PDF]
Foods, 2022 The world faces numerous problems and two of them are global food shortages and the dwindling number of pollinating insects. Plant products that do not arise from pollination are plant galls, which as in the case of oak apples, can resemble fruits and be
Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow
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Plant organ modulates morphological constraints of insect-induced galls: evidence from citizen science data [PDF]
Scientific ReportsGalls are abnormal plant structures formed through interactions between host plants and insects, providing shelter and nutrients for gall-inducing insects.
Kanako Bessho-Uehara +3 more
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A study on the effect of host plants on Chinese gallnut morphogenesis.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Galls are products of the hyperplasia of host plant structures induced by gall-inducing organisms and have been considered as an extended phenotype of the inducers. There is little evidence regarding the effect of host plants on gall morphology.
Qin Lu +5 more
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Parasitic‐Plant Parasite Rewires Flowering Pathways to Induce Stem‐Derived Galls [PDF]
Plant DirectGall‐inducing insects manipulate host plant development, redirecting cellular fate and physiological processes to form novel structures. This phenomenon is even more intriguing when the host itself is a holoparasitic plant with minimal photosynthetic ...
Naga Jyothi Udandarao +4 more
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List of plants with galls induced by insects from the UNILAVRAS/Boqueirão Biological Reserve, Ingaí, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2012 Tumors caused on vegetal tissues, named galls or cecidiens, may occur due to the action of several organisms such as bacteria, viruses, nematodes, fungi and insects. The main inductors are insects and this is a highly complex kind of herbivory.
Kira Malves, Fernando Frieiro-Costa
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Galhas entomógenas em três fragmentos de Mata Atlântica no extremo Sul Catarinense, Brasil
Entomological Communications, 2020 Fifteen insect gall morphotypes were found on 11 plant species (8 families) in three fragments of the Dense Ombrophylous Lowland Forest, in the municipalities of Maracajá, Içara and Araranguá, Santa Catarina.
Ismael C. Flor
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Insect galls from Amazon rainforest areas in Rondônia (Brazil) [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023 This study aimed at survey insect galls of an Amazon rainforest area in Rondônia, Brazil. We found 152 gall morphotypes in 103 plant species. Fabaceae were the host with the greatest gall richness. Leaves were the most galled organ.
BARBARA PROENÇA, VALÉRIA CID MAIA
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Plant‐galling insect interactions: a data set of host plants and their gall‐inducing insects for the Cerrado [PDF]
Ecology, 2020 AbstractRecent decades have seen increased research interest in the processes and mechanisms related to insect gall richness and host plants. The data set provided here includes 968 records of interactions between galling insects and host plants for the Cerrado biome. The data set comprises 505 species of 222 genera and 67 families of host plants.
Fernanda C. F. Cintra +8 more
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Plants, 2020 Galls are remarkable parasite–plant interactions that develop in different organs. They are induced by various organisms which manipulate or reprogram plant development.
André Guimarães +2 more
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Interspecific interactions among insect herbivores are common and important. Because they are surrounded by plant tissue (endophagy), the interactions between gall-formers and other herbivores are primarily plant-mediated. Gall-forming insects
Lilach Kurzfeld-Zexer, Moshe Inbar
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