Parasite Removal, but Not Herbivory, Deters Future Parasite Attachment on Tomato
Fig 2
Effects of prior dodder treatment on the attachment rate of a second dodder parasite across 3 tomato cultivars.
Lines indicate proportion of dodder seedling attachment at each time point. The ‘continuous attachment’ treatment line stops at day 4 because all dodder that did not attach by this point had died. Plants with the initial dodder removed had significantly lower attachment rate compared to control (Dodder-removed: hazard ratio vs control = 0.48, Z = -2.96, P = 0.0031) and plants with continuous dodder attachment (Dodder-continuous: hazard ratio vs control = 0.97, Z = -0.13, P = 0.900).
