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Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the abundance of foliar-feeding insects and their natural enemy

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We investigated the effects of symbiotic association between a plant and an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) on the abundance of aboveground foliar-feeding insects that differed in feeding mode and their predator. We examined effects on insect abundance as the result of AMF-related changes in the quality and quantity of plants in the field. The numbers of three insects with different foliar-feeding mode (phloem feeder, chewer, and cell-content feeder) and their generalist predator Orius sauteri Poppius on soybean Glycine max (L.) Merrill with and without the AMF Gigaspora margarita Becker & Hall were compared over time. Symbiotic association between the AMF and the soybean increased shoot biomass, the concentration of phosphorus in the soybean, and the abundance of the phloem feeder Aulacorthum solani Kaltenbach, but did not affect the abundance of generalist chewers. In addition, the effects of the symbiotic association on the abundance of cell-content feeding Thrips spp. and the generalist predator O. sauteri differed between sample dates. These results indicated that the effects of the symbiotic association on the number of foliar-feeding insects depended on feeding mode and the number of predators.

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We thank Dr N. Katayama, Dr T. Takizawa, and T. Ananto for their valuable comments on the manuscript, and Professor E.W. Evans for English correction. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions.

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  1. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan

    Koji Ueda

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, Yamagata University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, 997-8555, Japan

    Keitaro Tawaraya, Hideki Murayama, Satoru Sato, Takashi Nishizawa, Tomonobu Toyomasu, Tetsuya Murayama, Shinpei Shiozawa & Hironori Yasuda

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Ueda, K., Tawaraya, K., Murayama, H. et al. Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the abundance of foliar-feeding insects and their natural enemy. Appl Entomol Zool 48, 79–85 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-012-0155-1

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