ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Do plant volatiles shape species interactions in agroecological fields?
Plants use volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to continuously communicate with antagonistic organisms such as herbivore pests; and mutualistic organisms such as natural enemies of the pests, and pollinators. But we only know the basics of this communication and most of the studies come from laboratory experiments involving only pairwise or at most three-species interactions. How VOCs mediate multitrophic plant-insect interactions in field conditions remain massively unknown. In PANOPLY, I will be the first one to study how VOCs shape plant-insect interactions in an unpresented long-term scale from the lab to the field. I will use the scientifically and economically important perennial system…
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