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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 56(2)

Species-specific changes in tissue morphogenesis induced by two arthropod leaf gallers in Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae)

Maria Zabelê Dantas Moura A , Geraldo Luiz Gonçalves Soares B and Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias A C
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A Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil.

B Departamento de Botânica, Instituto Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Bairro Agronomia, Porto Alegre, RS 90501-970, Brazil.

C Corresponding author. Email: rosy@icb.ufmg.br

Australian Journal of Botany 56(2) 153-160 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT07131
Submitted: 10 July 2007  Accepted: 12 November 2007   Published: 19 March 2008

Abstract

When different cecidogenous species attack the same plant species, each one causes distinct plant tissue reorganisation, and forms typical gall structures. Two Lantana camara L. leaf galls induced by Aceria lantanae (Cook) (Acarina: Eriophyidae) and Schismatodiplosis lantanae (Rübsaamen) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) were collected in a subspontaneous population at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A. lantanae crinckle galls were uni- or multi-chambered and contained several mites, caused by several leaf foldings, and consisted of hyperplasic epidermis and parenchyma. S. lantanae induced uni-chambered pouch galls inhabited by one larvae or pupa. This gall consisted predominantly of hypertrophied spongy parenchyma. Our results documented how these herbivores acted in cells with the same initial morphogenetic competence, altering leaf pattern, and inducing their specific extended phenotype.


Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Jane E. Kraus (IB/USP) and Mr Irwandro R. Pires from the Centro de Microscopia Eletrônica/IB/USP) for the support during SEM preparation, Dr Valéria Cid Maia (Museu Nacional/RJ) for confirmation of the insect identification and Dr Denise Návia Magalhães Ferreira (EMBRAPA/DF) for confirmation of the mite identification.


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