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Candel Mora, Miguel AngelAuthor

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June 16, 2025
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Environment and host genotype determine the outcome of a plant-virus interaction: from antagonism to mutualism

Publicated to: NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 209 (2): 812-822 - 2016-01-01 209(2), DOI: 10.1111/nph.13631

Authors:

Garcia-Arenal, Fernando
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Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Biotecnol & Genom Plantas UPM INIA, Campus Montegancedo, Pozuelo De Alarcon 28223, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

It has been hypothesized that plant-virus interactions vary between antagonism and conditional mutualism according to environmental conditions. This hypothesis is based on scant experimental evidence, and to test it we examined the effect of abiotic factors on the Arabidopsis thaliana-Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) interaction. Four Arabidopsis genotypes clustering into two allometric groups were grown under six environments defined by three temperature and two light-intensity conditions. Plants were either CMV-infected or mock-inoculated, and the effects of environment and infection on temporal and resource allocation life-history traits were quantified. Life-history traits significantly differed between allometric groups over all environments, with group 1 plants tolerating abiotic stress better than those of group 2. The effect of CMV infection on host fitness (virulence) differed between genotypes, being lower in group 1 genotypes. Tolerance to abiotic stress and to infection was similarly achieved through life-history trait responses, which resulted in resource reallocation from growth to reproduction. Effects of infection varied according to plant genotype and environment from detrimental to beneficial for host fitness. These results are highly relevant and demonstrate that plant viruses can be pleiotropic parasites along the antagonism-mutualism continuum, which should be considered in analyses of the evolution of plant-virus interactions.
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Keywords

Abiotic environmentArabidopsis thalianaArabidopsis-thalianaBiodiversityConditional mutualismCucumber mosaic virus (cmv)EcologyEvolutioInfectionOvercompensationParasitePlant-virus interactionsPlasticityResistanceToleranceVirulencVirulence

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal NEW PHYTOLOGIST due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2016, it was in position 9/212, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Plant Sciences.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.13. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-03, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 63
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-03:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 132.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 132 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 4.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 6 (Altmetric).
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Awards linked to the item

We are grateful for the excellent technical assistance of Antolin Lopez-Quiros. This research was in part supported by a Marie Curie contract co-funded by the European Union and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (FP7) awarded to J-M.H., by a European Union Marie Curie contract (E120050-150, ERVIR) awarded to N.P., by a Ramon y Cajal contract (RYC-2011-08574) awarded to I.P., and by grant CGL2013-44952-R (Plan Estatal de I+D+i, Spain) to F.G-A.
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