Bright autumn colours of deciduous trees attract aphids : nutrient retranslocation hypothesis

By J. Holopainen, Petri A. Peltonen. 2002

87 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Marco Archetti
2. T. Döring
3. Lars Chittka
4. Yadvinder S. Malhi
5. R. Fisher
6. S. Lev-Yadun

In Insect Science

1. Marco Archetti
2. Joshua B. Fisher
3. T. Döring
4. Lars Chittka

In Plant Science

1. Marco Archetti
2. Joshua B. Fisher
3. T. Döring
4. Lars Chittka
5. Yadvinder S. Malhi
6. R. Fisher

Citations in the corpus

• Classification of hypotheses on the evolution of autumn colours (2009, background): “The function of autumn colours is photoprotection, but insects look actively for yellow and red leaves because these have more nutrients available (Holopainen and Peltonen 2002).”
• Aposematic (Warning) Coloration in Plants (2009, unknown): “If old yellow leaves are unpalatable, while leaves that have just turned yellow are rich with free amino acids (e.g., Holopainen and Peltonen 2002) , then Batesian mimicry by the newly formed yellow leaves seems to operate with the yellow leaves formed earlier on the same tree, or among various…”
• Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation, and fixation (2010, background): “Resorption requires C to synthesize the enzymes and regulatory elements that degrade and remobilize leaf nutrients, and to drive the translocation stream in which the nutrients are suspended [ Holopainen and Peltonen, 2002; Wright and Westoby, 2003].”
• Visual ecology of aphids—a critical review on the role of colours in host finding (2007, background): “In most, but not all deciduous trees, nutrients are translocated from the leaves in autumn (Dixon 1971; Holopainen and Peltonen 2002), leading to a high flux of aphid-accessible nitrogen in the phloem.”
• A test of the coevolution theory of autumn colours: colour preference of Rhopalosiphum padi on Prunus padus (2005, unknown): “capacity they should prefer yellow (Holopainen and Peltonen, 2002), not green (which is exactly the opposite of what our data show).”