Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles

In response to herbivory, plants synthesize and release variable mixtures of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as indirect defense traits. Such induction of indirect plant defense can also be “switched on” by certain chemicals known as priming agents. Preceding work showed that the plant HIPV cis-jasmone (CJ) induced the emission of aphid defense-related volatiles affecting their behavioral response. However, little is known about the extent to which CJ-induced volatiles impacts aphid performance. In the current study, we conducted growth assays of potato aphids, Macrosiphum euphorbiae, observing their reproduction, development, and survival on CJ-primed potato plants. Adult M. euphoribae produced fewer neonates on CJ-treated plants compared to untreated plants. The weight and survival of M. euphorbiae reproduced neonates were significantly lower on CJ-treated plants. Additionally, there was a significant reduction in mean relative growth rate (MRGR) of M. euphoribae nymphs that fed on CJ-treated plants. Furthermore, the intrinsic rate of population increase (rm) of M. euphoribae was significantly reduced on CJ-treated plants. Volatile analysis showed that CJ treatment significantly increased the emission of differently assigned volatile groups that have functional or biosynthetic characteristics, i.e., alcohols, benzenoids, homoterpenes, ketones, and sesquiterpenes at all sampling periods. Such enhanced volatile emissions were persistent over 7 days, suggesting a long-lasting effect of CJ defense priming. A negative correlation was found between volatile emission and MRGR of M. euphoribae. Principal component analysis (PCA) of data for the volatiles showed that (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, α-pinene, (E)-ocimene, (E)-4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene (DMNT), cis-jasmone, indole, and (E,E)-4,8,12-trimethyl-1,3,7,11-tridecatetraene (TMTT) were the main volatiles contributing to the emitted blends, suggesting possible involvement in the reduced performance of M. euphorbiae. Overall, our findings demonstrate that priming potato with CJ significantly results in elevated emission of known biologically active volatiles, which may negatively impact aphid settling and other performance traits on primed plants.

In response to herbivory, plants synthesize and release variable mixtures of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as indirect defense traits. Such induction of indirect plant defense can also be "switched on" by certain chemicals known as priming agents. Preceding work showed that the plant HIPV cis-jasmone (CJ) induced the emission of aphid defense-related volatiles affecting their behavioral response. However, little is known about the extent to which CJ-induced volatiles impacts aphid performance. In the current study, we conducted growth assays of potato aphids, Macrosiphum euphorbiae, observing their reproduction, development, and survival on CJ-primed potato plants. Adult M. euphoribae produced fewer neonates on CJ-treated plants compared to untreated plants. The weight and survival of M. euphorbiae reproduced neonates were significantly lower on CJ-treated plants. Additionally, there was a significant reduction in mean relative growth rate (MRGR) of M. euphoribae nymphs that fed on CJ-treated plants. Furthermore, the intrinsic rate of population increase (r m ) of M. euphoribae was significantly reduced on CJ-treated plants. Volatile analysis showed that CJ treatment significantly increased the emission of differently assigned volatile groups that have functional or biosynthetic characteristics, i.e., alcohols, benzenoids, homoterpenes, ketones, and sesquiterpenes at all sampling periods. Such enhanced volatile emissions were persistent over 7 days, suggesting a long-lasting effect of CJ defense priming. A negative correlation was found between volatile emission and MRGR of M. euphoribae. Principal component analysis (PCA) of data for the volatiles showed that (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, α-pinene, (E)-ocimene, (E)-4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene (DMNT), cis-jasmone, indole, and (E,E)-4,8,12-trimethyl-1,3,7,11-tridecatetraene (TMTT) were the main volatiles contributing to the emitted blends, suggesting possible involvement in the reduced performance of M. euphorbiae. Overall, our findings demonstrate that priming potato with CJ significantly results in elevated emission of known biologically active volatiles, which may negatively impact aphid settling and other performance traits on primed plants. Keywords: defense priming, cis-jasmone, VOCs, aphids, growth, survival, intrinsic rate INTRODUCTION Although many crop protection methods are currently utilized, insect pests still reduce the yield and quality of agricultural production worldwide, causing tremendous economic losses and threating global food security (Savary et al., 2019). Spraying chemical pesticides remains the main approach to combatting insect attacks in commercial crops, which entails serious drawbacks such as the evolution of insecticide resistance (Bass et al., 2014) and potential toxicity to beneficial insects such as bees and natural enemies (Desneux et al., 2007). Furthermore, there is an increasing restriction in the registration of conventional pesticides, which globally limits the future availability of active ingredients that are currently used for controlling crop pests (Birch et al., 2011). Thus, more sustainable and ecologically safer alternatives are urgently sought (Bruce, 2010).
During their coevolution with insects, plants have evolved a complex arsenal of defense mechanisms (Wu and Baldwin, 2010;Bruce, 2015). One of these defense traits is the synthesis and release of a diverse mixture of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) in response to insect attack (Pickett and Khan, 2016). These inducible defenses against insect invaders are regulated by a complex network of phytohormonal signaling , including salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA), which are also involved in HIPVs induction (Dudareva et al., 2013). The emitted HIPVs are perceived by neighboring plants, conspecific and/or heterospecific herbivores, and natural enemies, mediating a diverse array of multitrophic interactions (Turlings and Erb, 2018). Upon perception, whereas herbivores employ HIPVs to avoid infested plants by their conspecifics (De Moraes et al., 2001), neighboring plants make use of HIPVs to potentiate their defense so that they respond faster and more robustly when subsequently challenged by future insect attacks, a phenomenon known as "defense priming" (Engelberth et al., 2004). Such interplay between insects and plants, which is mediated by plant volatiles, has promoted the prospect that manipulating the emission of HIPVs, as a trait of plant natural defense, can be a potential driver for innovation in crop protection against herbivorous insects (Sobhy et al., 2014;Pickett and Khan, 2016;Turlings and Erb, 2018).
More recently, studies have shown that phenotypic manipulation of HIPVs can be achievable by the application of chemical priming agents (Sobhy et al., 2012(Sobhy et al., , 2018. These priming agents represent a new class of agrochemical that does not have a direct toxic impact on the target organisms (Sobhy et al., 2015b), but instead acts on defense signaling pathways and that could be harnessed in ecologically-based pest management programs (Bruce et al., 2017). Nevertheless, whereas chemical agents that prime plant resistance against pathogens are broadly being applied commercially (Gozzo and Faoro, 2013;Walters et al., 2013 and references herein), the development and application of such priming agents against herbivorous insects is still at the experimental stage. This is attributed to the fact that plant genotype, environmental conditions and other stressors substantially affect any subsequent enhancement in plant defense against insects caused by priming agents application (Bruce, 2014).
Aphids are important pests of crops that cause yield losses worldwide (Blackman and Eastop, 2006). In addition to their direct damage (i.e., malformation of the foliage and plant growth reduction) and crop contamination by honeydew and sooty mold, aphids are the most important vectors for nonpersistent plant viruses, even for non-host plants (van Emden and Harrington, 2017). It is increasingly evident that the application of chemical priming agents, such as β-aminobutyric acid (BABA) (Hodge et al., 2005(Hodge et al., , 2006Zhong et al., 2014) and BTH (acibenzolar-S-methyl) (Cooper et al., 2004;Boughton et al., 2006), has a negative impact upon aphid populations.
In the current study, to explore potential direct effects of the altered VOC emissions during plant priming on aphid performance, we performed growth assays using potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas), observing their reproduction, development, and survival on potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants primed with CJ. Macrosiphum euphorbiae is a deleterious polyphagous aphid feeding on hundreds of plant species across 20 taxonomic families worldwide (van Emden and Harrington, 2017). Nevertheless, as an American native aphid, M. euphorbiae have Solanaceae as the preferred hosts and is known to vector many viruses while colonizing potato plants (Srinivasan and Alvarez, 2011). To correlate aphid performance with the emitted VOC profiles, volatile entrainment was conducted and the collected VOCs under various treatments were analyzed. The outcomes of our study could provide further insights into the potential of using priming agents of plant defense as a new ecologically-benign strategy for deployment in combination with current integrated pest management (IPM) tactics against aphids.

Plants and Insects
Potato plants, Solanum tuberosum cv. Désirée, were grown in a glasshouse at 25 ± 2 • C under a 16L: 8D h photoperiod. In all experiments, potato plants with 30-45 cm height (nearly 3-weekold) were used. For the insect model, we used the potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae), which was collected from the field at Rothamsted Research (51.8093 • N, 0.3548 • W). Afterwards, colonies were maintained from parthenogenetic individuals on the above-mentioned potato variety in a controlled environment room (20 ± 1 • C, 60 ± 10% RH, 16L: 8D h photoperiod), which ensured continuous asexual reproduction. Growth assay and volatiles entrainment experiments were carried out using apterae (wingless) adults.

cis-Jasmone Application and Plant Treatments
Plants were treated with an aqueous emulsion of cis-jasmone (CJ; 90%; Avocado, Lancaster, UK) as described in Sobhy et al. (2017) using a hydraulic nozzle (Brown 015-F110) mounted on a variable speed spray track at 1 ms −1 . Plants were randomly allocated to one of the following treatments: (a) untreated plants (Control); (b) surfactant formulation (SUR): non-ionic surfactant Ethylan BV (100 µl) in deionized water (100 ml); and (c) CJ formulation (CJ): CJ (25 µl) and Ethylan BV (100 µl) in deionized water (100 ml). Ethylan BV is often used in this formulation to emulsify CJ in water and to lower the interfacial tension between the spray and the plant's epidermis to increase CJ uptake (Hazen, 2000). Given its ability to penetrate minute cavities such as stomata (Wood et al., 1997), it is highly possible that this surfactant can affect stomatal conductance and therefore may cause a change in the volatile emission. To rule out surfactant effects, a SUR treatment was also included in our study as a positive control. Prior to experiments, plants were kept for 24 h in separate glasshouse compartments to minimize unwanted induction of plant defense or "priming" effects by plant-plant volatile interactions between treatments. Plants were thereafter moved, with particular care to avoid any damage, from the glasshouse to laboratory where the experiments took place.

Aphid Growth Rate and Performance
The performance of M. euphorbiae on Control, SUR and CJ potato plants was assessed. Previous studies have shown that most of the inducible changes occur after 48 h following CJ treatment (Dewhirst et al., 2012;Sobhy et al., 2017). Therefore, experiments were carried out 48 h after the plant treatment. Six alate M. euphorbiae were placed in one clip cage (5 cm diameter, N = 10), which were attached to the lower surface of potato leaves and left overnight for nymphs viviparity as shown in Figure 1. Subsequently, adults were removed from the clip cages the following morning and neonate nymphs were then collected and weighed together in batches of five in Eppendorf tubes (1.5 mL) on a microbalance (Cahn C33; Scientific and Medical Products Ltd, Manchester, UK), and the average birth weight was calculated. Nymphs were transferred back to fresh potato plants of the same treatment on which they started and then confined to clip cages and their survival and reproduction were monitored over 7 days (Figure 1). The plants were kept in a controlled environment room (25 • C, 40% RH, 16L: 8D h photoperiod) with supplementary overhead lighting. After one week, survived aphid individuals were reweighed, and the mean relative growth rate (MRGR) of aphid was calculated (Bruce et al., 2003;Dewhirst et al., 2012), which indicates the growth per unit weight per unit time.

MRGR =
ln (7day weight) − ln (birth weight) 7 To further study the intrinsic rate of population increase (r m ), these obtained nymphs were then allowed to grow on fresh potato plants of the same treatment, which had been treated 48 h earlier. The time taken to reach adulthood and produce their first nymph was recorded, after which the number of neonate nymphs produced per day was noted. To prevent overcrowding, the nymphs were removed soon after recording. The r m value was calculated using the time taken from birth to produce the first nymph (D) and the number of nymphs produced over a period equivalent to time D (FD) starting at the production of the first nymph. We used in the calculations a constant obtained from the mean pre-reproductive times for numerous aphid species (Wyatt and White, 1977), using the following equation: Data were recorded in the form of number of reproduced nymphs, number of survived nymphs, weights of aphids at birth and after 7 days, the time taken from birth to produce the first nymph and the number of nymphs produced.

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Collection
Dynamic headspace collection was carried out following standard procedures as described in Sobhy et al. (2017). For VOC collection, as shown in Figure 1, a compound leaf with 5-7 leaflets from a potato plant was enclosed in a glass vessel (22 cm high × 10 cm internal diameter). It should be noted that we used here identical compound leaves of potato plants to those used earlier in the aphid performance assay in terms of both height and position on potato stem. The bottom of the used glass vessel, which has two ports at the top (one for inlet of air and the other for outlet), was open. To seal such vessels, the bottom was "closed" without pressure around the plant stem using two semicircular aluminum plates with a hole in the center to accommodate the stem, which was wrapped with PTFE tape (Gibbs and Dandy, Luton, UK) at the connection point. To ensure no damage has occurred to plants, plates were clipped to the glass vessel base without constricting the plant. Air, purified by passing through an activated charcoal filter (BDH, 10-14 mesh, 50 g), was pushed into the vessel through the inlet port at 700 ml min −1 (flow rate controlled by needle valve and measured by a flow meter). Air was pulled out at 500 ml min −1 through Porapak Q 50/80 (50 mg, Supelco, Bellefonte, PA, USA) held by two plugs of silanised glass wool in a 5-mm diameter glass tube (Alltech Associates, Carnforth, Lancashire, UK). All connections were made with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tubing (Alltech Associates) with brass ferrules and fittings (North London Valve, London, UK) and sealed with PTFE tape. Upon each experiment, glassware, metal plates and other equipment were washed with Teepol detergent (Teepol, Kent, UK) in an aqueous solution, acetone and distilled water, and then baked overnight at 180 • C. Porapak Q filters were conditioned before use by washing with redistilled diethyl ether (4 ml) and heated to 132 • C under a stream of purified nitrogen and kept for 2 h. Diethyl ether was purchased from Sigma Aldrich and was distilled prior to use. VOC extracts required for GC-MS analyses were collected over 5 days in 24 h periods (n = 3) (Hegde et al., 2012;Sobhy et al., 2017). Although the trapped VOCs in Porapak Q tubes were eluted after each collection period with freshly redistilled diethyl ether (750 µL), we analyzed here only the ones that were collected at 0-24, 48-72, and 96-120 h to be thus consonant with the growth assay. The samples were concentrated under a stream of nitrogen to ∼50 µL and stored in small vials (Supelco, Amber Vial, 7 mL with solid cap w/PTFE liner) at −20 • C until required for analysis.

Chemical Analysis
VOC extracts were analyzed by high-resolution gas chromatography (GC) using an Agilent 6890 GC equipped with a cool on-column injector, flame ionization detector (FID) and a nonpolar HP-bonded phase fused silica capillary column (50 m × 0.32 mm inner diameter, film thickness 0.5 µm; J & W Scientific). The GC oven temperature was maintained at 30 • C for 1 min after sample injection and then raised by 5 • C min −1 to 150 • C, thereafter by 10 • C min −1 to 230 • C. The carrier gas was hydrogen. 4 µl of each eluted sample were manually injected into the injector port of the GC instrument.
Coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of VOCs from treated potato plants was performed using a non-polar column (HP-1, 50 m × 0.32 mm inner diameter, film thickness 0.5 µm), attached to a cool oncolumn injector, which was directly coupled to a magnetic sector mass spectrometer (Autospec Ultima, Fisons Instruments, Manchester, UK). Ionization was by electron impact at 70 eV, 250 • C (source temperature). Helium was the carrier gas. The GC oven temperature was maintained at 30 • C for 5 min, and then programmed at 5 • C min −1 to 250 • C.

Data Visualization and Statistics
Visualization together with hierarchical clustering of VOCs data was done using the comprehensive online tool suite MetaboAnalyst 4.0 (Chong et al., 2018). Data matrix was first mean-centered, cube-root transformed prior to analysis. Average linkage hierarchical clustering based on Ward clustering algorithm of the Euclidean distance measure for the differentially emitted VOCs detected by ANOVA (Tukey's post-hoc tests, P < 0.05) was used to construct a heatmap. Additionally, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to visualize overall differences among VOC blends emitted from plants subjected to each treatment (i.e., Control, CJ, and SUR) at each collection point (i.e., 24, 72, and 120 h). In this analysis, we used two outputs from the data; a matrix of "scores" which provides the location of each compound along each principal component (PC) and a matrix of "loadings" which indicates the strength of correlation between individual VOCs and each PC.
We used multivariate analysis of variance (two-way MANOVA) to analyze the effects of treatment, sampling time, and their interaction on volatile emission, with the "treatment" and "time" as fixed factors and the volatile compounds as dependent variables (IBM SPSS Statistics version 22.0, Armonk, NY, USA). Given that these VOCs share common precursors and their variation patterns within groups of compounds can be attributed to variation in the quantity of their common precursor (Hare, 2011), VOCs were grouped into alcohols, aldehydes, benzenoids, esters, homoterpene, ketones, monoterpenes, and sesquiterpenes based on their functional or biosynthetic characteristics. Groups containing two compounds (or more) were considered for two-way MANOVA. Subsequently, two-way MANOVA was followed by two-way ANOVA for the different VOC groups on the sum of all compounds under each to determine the effects of treatment, sampling time and their interaction, or by one-way ANOVA to only determine the effects of treatment only, followed by Tukey post-hoc comparisons (P < 0.05). Two-way ANOVA was also performed on individual compounds not included in MANOVA, and on total emitted volatiles (i.e., the sum of all VOCs).
For the aphid performance experiments, natural log (ln) transformed data for birth, 7 days and adult weights, the MRGR, D, FD, and r m were compared by one-way ANOVA using SigmaPlot 12.3 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). A natural log (ln) transformation was needed in order to normalize the residuals of the weight data. Prior to analysis, data were examined for a Normal distribution using the Shapiro-Wilk test. Comparisons among means were performed using Tukey post-hoc test (P < 0.05).

Aphid Performance Bioassay
The growth rate parameters of M. euphorbiae were significantly affected by CJ treatment. Females of M. euphorbiae produced significantly less neonate nymphs on treated potato plants compared to control or SUR plants [F (2,27) = 27.94; P = <0.001; Figure 2A]. In addition, the survival of M. euphorbiae nymphs significantly decreased on CJ-treated than on control plants [F (2,27) = 40.05; P = <0.001; Figure 2B]. Further, the MRGR of M. euphorbiae nymphs that fed on CJ treated plants was significantly lower compared to those reared on either control or SUR plants [F (2,27) = 6.203; P = 0.006; Figure 2C]. The mean intrinsic rate of population increase (r m ) of M. euphorbiae was significantly reduced on CJ-treated potato compared to control or SUR plants [F (2,27) = 6.716; P = 0.004; Figure 2D].
The resulting heatmap showed differential magnitude of VOC emission between treatments with a greater increase from CJtreated plants (Figure 3).

DISCUSSION
The prospect of potentiating plant defense against insects by using priming agents that are naturally derived from plants has received recently substantial attention because of its potential for providing more environment-friendly agrochemicals for crop protection (Bruce et al., 2017;Turlings and Erb, 2018). Here, we demonstrate that potato pretreatment with the priming agent CJ reduces aphid reproduction, survival, intrinsic rate of population increase and overall performance. In addition, primed potato plants notably release elevated profiles of defense-related VOCs. Further, a significant negative correlation between elevated VOC profiles and aphid performance was detected when the plants  were primed by CJ. This may in turn affect aphid settling on treated plants.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | www.frontiersin.org FIGURE 3 | Hierarchical cluster of the volatile profiles emitted by potato plants that were treated with cis-jasmone (CJ) or surfactant (SUR) in comparison to untreated plants (Control). Cube root transformed values of biological replicates (n = 3) are represented as a heatmap according to the scale in which red corresponds to higher VOCs emission whereas green denotes lower VOCs emission. The heatmap was constructed using the average of three biological replicates in each collection point (i.e., 24, 72, and 120 h). The sample/VOC grouping is based on Ward clustering algorithm of the Euclidean distance measure for the differentially emitted VOCs detected by ANOVA (Tukey's post-hoc tests, P < 0.05). Quantitative data are shown in Table 2.
The suppressed performance of aphids on CJ-primed plants has been reported on many different crop plants. For instance, cereal aphids were negatively affected by CJ treatment and fewer aphids were observed on CJ plants than on untreated ones (Bayram and Tonga, 2018). Furthermore, the developmental rate and MRGR, but not intrinsic rate, of the glasshouse potato aphid (Aulacorthum solani Kalt.) were significantly reduced on sweet pepper plants treated with CJ (Dewhirst et al., 2012). Congruously, Bruce et al. (2003) reported a reduced intrinsic rate of population increase and fewer numbers of grain aphid on CJ-treated wheat. This negative influence of CJ application can be also extended to include the foraging activity of aphids (Paprocka et al., 2018). Interestingly, more deleterious insects are negatively influenced by CJ application as such as thrips (Egger and Koschier, 2014;Egger et al., 2016) and stink bugs (da Graça et al., 2016). Further, not only puncturing and/or sucking insects are adversely affected by CJ application, but also chewing lepidopteran pests such as the noctuid, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), which laid fewer egg masses when reared on CJtreated tomato plants (Disi et al., 2017). Such broader negative impact on diverse herbivore species raises the question whether CJ may be a common defense-priming signal in nature.

cis-Jasmone Elicits Elevated Volatile Profiles
VOC analysis disclosed a drastic increase in VOC emission from CJ primed plants which clearly illustrated by heatmap analysis. Most promising was our finding that such increased VOC emission was detected at the three collection points (i.e., 0-24, 48-72, and 96-120 h), suggesting long-lasting induction for nearly a week following plant treatment with CJ.
Benzenoid VOCs (i.e., MeSA and indole) were released in considerably higher amounts from CJ-primed plants at all VOC sampling points. Concordant with this, cotton priming with CJ induced the emission of several VOCs, including MeSA (Hegde et al., 2012). For the latter benzenoid, previous work has shown an increased emission of indole from CJ-primed plants (Delaney et al., 2013), which has been shown to be an electrophysiologically active VOC to M. euphorbiae (Sobhy et al., 2017), suggesting its potential role in potato/aphid interactions.
CJ treated plants released higher amounts of the ketones MHO and CJ, which have been shown to possess biological activity against aphids (Sobhy et al., 2017). In particular, a higher emission of MHO was reported from various crop plants treated with jasmonate related compounds, such as CJ (Pickett et al., 2007a;Dewhirst et al., 2012;Sobhy et al., 2017) and MeJA (Yu et al., 2018). It should be noted that CJ itself is a stress-related VOC that is emitted in elevated concentrations from plants treated with different priming agents (Sobhy et al., 2015a(Sobhy et al., , 2017. Of all detected sesquiterpenes, the emission of (E)-β-farnesene and the tentatively identified longifolene isomer, (E)-(1R,9S)caryophyllene, and (R) or (S)-germacrene D was notably induced upon CJ treatment. Consistent with our results, Oluwafemi et al. (2013) found that primed maize released higher quantities of germacrene D when exposed to CJ. Moreover, it has been also shown that significant emission of germacrene D was released from plants induced by either JA (Obara et al., 2002) or MeJA (Yu et al., 2018). A growing body of evidence suggest that plant priming with CJ elicits the emission of (E)-(1R,9S)-caryophyllene and (E)-β-farnesene (Delaney et al., 2013;Oluwafemi et al., 2013). It should be noted that majority of the above-mentioned VOCs that were induced upon CJ priming are indeed key semiochemicals in plant/aphid interactions.

Associational Resistance of cis-Jasmone Primed Plants
One mechanistic interpretation for the reduced aphid performance observed on CJ-primed plants would be attributed to the higher emission of aphid defense-related HIPVs following CJ application. Aphids may therefore perceive such induced or altered HIPV profiles from CJ-primed plants as signals of a greater risk of competition from conspecifics or as a greater risk of predation from natural enemies (Bruce and Pickett, 2011). Consistent with our findings, the coordinated defense responses expressed in primed plants, when exposed to contact-induced volatiles, reduced aphid settling, making these plants a less suitable host for aphids (Markovic et al., 2019). Furthermore, exposing potato to VOCs from undamaged onion plants altered its volatile profile and this had a deterrent effect against hostseeking M. persicae, which was further confirmed in the field where migration of aphids into potato was significantly reduced by intercropping with onion (Ninkovic et al., 2013). Similarly, lower MRGR of the bird cherry oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi L) was reported on barley plants exposed to the volatiles of the weed Chenopodium album (Ninkovic et al., 2009). Remarkably, such reduced aphid performance on primed plants can be also obtained by exposing these aphid-infested plants to a single stress-related volatile. For instance, the fertility of M. euphoribae was significantly reduced when individuals fed on tomato plants exposed to MeSA (Digilio et al., 2012). In addition, exposing Chinese cabbage to β-ocimene negatively influenced the feeding behavior of M. persicae (Kang et al., 2018). Similarly, using M. euphoribae, significant lower numbers of newborn nymphs and lower number of settled individuals, with lower weight, were recorded on tomato plants when primed by β-ocimene (Cascone et al., 2015). More recently, Maurya et al. (2019) reported a reduced fecundity of pea aphid on barrel medic plants upon their exposure to indole.
Multivariate analysis (PCA) of VOC data further indicated which volatiles may be involved in aphid reduced performance. In particular, TMTT, α-pinene, and DMNT had the greatest loadings for PC1, which separated the CJ from the Control and SUR treatments, from the 0-24 h air entrainment. For both the 48-72 and 96-120 h air entrainment periods, PC2 separated the CJ from the Control and SUR treatments. (E)ocimene, cis-jasmone and indole had the greatest loadings for PC2 48-72h , whereas (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, DMNT, and (E)-ocimene had the greatest loadings for PC2 96-120h and thus were much likely dominating in the emitted VOC blends. This suggests that these volatiles correlate most strongly with aphid reduced performance. Indeed, these VOCs are key semiochemicals in aphid trophic interactions and are directly associated with aphid repellency and/or attraction of aphid natural enemies. Previous work has shown an increased emission of (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol Webster et al., 2008), α-pinene , (E)-β-ocimene Staudt et al., 2010), DMNT, and TMTT (Hegde et al., 2011), CJ (Birkett et al., 2000), and indole (Sobhy et al., 2017) in response to aphid herbivory. It should be noted that these aphid-stress signals are significantly repellent to aphids (Bruce et al., 2005;Beale et al., 2006;Hegde et al., 2011). Further, we have shown recently that alate M. euphorbiae showed electrophysiological activity to most of these VOCs that are emitted from CJ treated plants (Sobhy et al., 2017). Alternatively, (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol (Du et al., 1998;Sasso et al., 2009), α-pinene (Corrado et al., 2007), (E)-β-ocimene (Birkett et al., 2000), DMNT and TMTT (Hegde et al., 2011), CJ (Birkett et al., 2000), and indole (Han and Chen, 2002) have shown robust potential in attracting several natural enemies of aphids. This points to possible association of the emission of these VOCs as danger signals and the likely risk of being attacked by their parasitoids and/or predators.
The reduced performance of other herbivores following exposure to HIPVs has been reported previously. For example, exposure to HIPVs decreased the growth rate of Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval) caterpillars at early larval stages (von Mérey et al., 2013). In addition, leaf beetle, Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharting), larvae showed decreased performance on uninfested host plants when exposed to HIPVs from plants infested by conspecific larvae (Yoneya et al., 2014). Interestingly, such decreased herbivore performance following exposure to HIPVs can be also achieved by treating the plants with priming agents. In this respect, using CJ but with a chewing herbivore, females of S. exigua laid fewer egg masses when subjected to filter papers containing VOCs of CJ-primed plants (Disi et al., 2017). Furthermore, plant treatment with the priming agent prohydrojasmone [propyl (1RS, 2RS)-(3-oxo-2-pentylcyclopentyl) acetate] negatively affected the oviposition of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Uefune et al., 2013), due to several quantitative and qualitative changes in HIPVs in prohydrojasmone-treated plants.
Additional indirect evidence on the potential of bioactive volatiles as priming agents that render exposed plants less appealing to herbivores and possibly more attractive to natural enemies comes from cotton growers in developing countries. More specifically, farmers used to remove the growing buds of cotton plants just before flowering, which is known as cotton topping (Renou et al., 2011). This in turn, in addition to branching and flowers increase, significantly reduced the attack of many lepidopteran pests in cotton. Remarkably, this not only occurred in topped plants, but also was extended to encompass neighboring plants that were not topped, suggesting that the released VOCs from topped plants can protect their neighbor plants from an impending attack by repelling herbivores and/or attracting beneficial insects (Llandres et al., 2019).
Yet, many questions remain unknown and require more studies to answer, especially concerning the underlying induced changes upon plant priming and how induced responses precisely reduce the herbivore performance. To this end and to obtain further empirical evidence, it is advised that similar experimental work should be performed but using knock-out mutant plants in which the pathways producing specific classes of VOCs are silenced (Matthes et al., 2010;Christensen et al., 2013).

Potential Implications for Durable Aphid Control in Potato
Potato is currently one of the five major crops worldwide that contributes with 2.2% of the global human calorific intake (King and Slavin, 2013). While the increase in consumption requires drastic increase in potato yield (FAO, 2009), insect infestation is still a major constraint reducing potato production worldwide, especially those vector plant viruses and have tremendous indirect damage such as aphids (van Emden and Harrington, 2017). Our results show clear evidence that CJ application decreases aphid growth, reproduction, intrinsic rate and survival. These life history traits are indeed vital factors determining the success of aphid population (Leather and Dixon, 1984). Thus, negatively affecting these traits would likely reduce the overall aphid fitness. Given the current thinking that effective control does not necessarily have to rely on aphid mortality, we believe that priming potato defense against aphids using CJ has the potential to provide new opportunities for sustainable crop protection, especially if being used in the context of IPM, through the induction of VOC emissions (Turlings and Erb, 2018;Brilli et al., 2019). This could minimize the need for applying conventional toxic agrochemicals in potato fields. Bearing in mind that plant genotype, application method and other environmental conditions strongly influence the magnitude of any enhancement in plant defense acquired by these priming agents, more field research is needed before upscaling their application under field conditions.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
The datasets generated for this study are available on request to the corresponding author.

ETHICS STATEMENT
Experimental manipulation of aphids and plants occurred according to the common and ethical requirements for organism's welfare where both insects and plants, used in this study, were carefully handled during experiments and maintained in the laboratory under appropriate conditions.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
IS, JP, and MB conceived the ideas and designed the experiments. IS performed the experiments and collected the data. IS, JC, JP, and MB analyzed the data. IS and JC contributed to the GC chemical analysis. IS, JP, and MB led the writing of the manuscript. All authors contributed critically to the drafts and gave final approval for publication.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We deeply thank Janet Martin for aphid rearing, Barry Pye for CJ plant treatment, and Lesley Smart for her help in the experimental set-up. IS gratefully acknowledges the permission of Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt for his leave of absence to conduct research in UK.