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BACKGROUND
Ants can become efficient biocontrol agents in plantation crops as they prey on pest insects and may inhibit plant pathogens by excreting broad‐spectrum antibiotics. However, ants also provide a disservice by augmenting attended honeydew producing homopterans. This disservice may be avoided by offering ants artificial sugar as an alternative to honeydew. Here we tested the effect of artificial...
Plant diseases are a growing threat to plant production and food security. An accumulating number of studies show that ants and their bacterial symbionts produce antibiotics that are potentially effective against plant pathogens.
From 14 publications covering 246 ant antibiotic‐pathogen combinations, we evaluated the effectiveness of ant‐derived chemicals (produced by ants or their microbiomes)...