Can the galling Eriophyidae (Trombidiformes) manipulate leaf structural and histochemical profiles over environmental stressors?
Mariana de Sousa Costa Freitas A , Bruno Garcia Ferreira A B , Gracielle Pereira Pimenta Bragança A , Daniela Boanares
A and Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias A *
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A Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
B Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biologia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Australian Journal of Botany 71(3) 146-156 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT22091
Submitted: 18 August 2022 Accepted: 18 March 2023 Published: 17 April 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing
Abstract
Context: Galls are products of an intrinsic relationship between specific parasites and their host plants. Gall formation involves alterations in the developmental pattern of the host organs in which environmental conditions may also impose constraints.
Aims: We hypothesised that the adaptive features of the host plants reflect the stressors of the xeric and mesic environments and influence the establishment and success of the associated galls.
Methods: We analysed anatomical, histometric, and histochemical alterations induced by two species of Eriophyidae, on Miconia ibaguensis adapted to the Brazilian Cerrado (xeric environment) and on Miconia notabilis adapted to the forests of the equatorial region (mesic environment).
Key results: The adaptive leaf characteristics of M. ibaguensis and M. notabilis to both xeric and mesic environments, such as the trichomes, cuticle and mesophyll thickness, number of mesophyll layers, the proportion of intercellular spaces, differences in the intensity detection of phenolic and starch are kept in the galls. The higher density of emergences in M. notabilis may increase the protection against the natural enemies of the eriophyids, which are commonly more abundant in mesic than in xeric environments.
Conclusions: These traits are important not only for the survival of the two host plants but also for the success of the two species of galling Eriophyidae in distinct environments.
Implications: These findings indicate the success of the gall inducers of the same taxa in distinct environments, which can be explored in different systems.
Keywords: anatomy, Brazilian cerrado, equatorial forest, Eriophyidae galls, histochemistry, histometry, mesic environment, Miconia, xeric environment.
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