Defense Responses in the Interactions between Medicinal Plants from Lamiaceae Family and the Two-Spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae)

This study aimed to determine the effects of plant species on biological parameters Tetranychus urticae Koch and time mite infestation physiology in Ocimum basilicum L., Melissa officinalis L. Salvia Mite induced various levels oxidative stress depending duration infestation. Host plants affected T. life table parameters. The low level susceptibility was characteristic S. officinalis, which appeared be least infected reduced mites demographic Infested leaves contained elevated hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) malondialdehyde (MDA) compared control. In addition, higher membrane lipid peroxidation activity guaiacol peroxidase (GPX) lower catalase (CAT) were recorded with a longer contrast, O. suitable host could develop increase number. basil leaves, increasing MDA GPX strongly decreased recorded. Knowledge differences tested medicinal described this has potential applied breeding strategies integrated pest management cultivations.