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Whether honeydew\u2010associated bacteria suppress plant defense responses to enhance aphid performance remains unclear. Here, we investigated the effects of honeydew\u2010associated bacteria from the cotton\u2010melon aphid,\n                    <jats:italic>Aphis gossypii<\/jats:italic>\n                    , on defense responses in zucchini (\n                    <jats:italic>Cucurbita pepo<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) and subsequent aphid performance. Compared with sterilized honeydew, crude honeydew significantly increased aphid body weight, suggesting that honeydew\u2010associated bacteria contribute to enhanced aphid performance. This effect was associated with attenuation of multiple jasmonic acid (JA)\u2010 and salicylic acid (SA)\u2010associated defense responses, including reduced expression of several defense\u2010related genes, lower accumulation of free JA and free SA, and reduced PPO activity. Further assays with individual bacterial isolates showed that\n                    <jats:italic>Mammaliicoccus<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. and\n                    <jats:italic>Pseudomonas<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. significantly increased aphid body weight, whereas bacterial effects on JA\u2010 and SA\u2010related gene expression and PPO activity were isolate\u2010 and time\u2010dependent. Together, these results show that honeydew\u2010associated bacteria can suppress zucchini defense responses and enhance the performance of\n                    <jats:italic>A. gossypii<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Our findings reveal honeydew microbiota as microbial modulators of plant\u2013aphid interactions.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/pce.70960","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]],"date-time":"2026-10-06T11:01:55Z","timestamp":1791284515000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Honeydew\u2010Associated Bacteria Suppress Zucchini Defense Responses and Enhance the Performance of the Cotton\u2010Melon Aphid"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"given":"Hongfen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences Hubei University Wuhan China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences Hubei University Wuhan China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8742-4188","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shichang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences Hubei University Wuhan China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7581-7766","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaoguo","family":"Jiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences Hubei University Wuhan China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1454-0799","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science Hubei University Wuhan China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2199-0210","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yao","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences Hubei University Wuhan China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]]},"reference":[{"issue":"12","key":"e_1_2_8_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3571","DOI":"10.1093\/jxb\/erv141","article-title":"Polyphenol Oxidase in Leaves: Is There Any Significance to the Chloroplastic Localization?","volume":"66","author":"Boeckx T.","year":"2015","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Botany"},{"issue":"1","key":"e_1_2_8_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-020-16921-2","article-title":"The Phytopathogenic Fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Detoxifies Plant Glucosinolate Hydrolysis Products via an Isothiocyanate Hydrolase","volume":"11","author":"Chen J.","year":"2020","journal-title":"Nature Communications"},{"issue":"39","key":"e_1_2_8_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"15728","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1308867110","article-title":"Herbivore Exploits Orally Secreted Bacteria to Suppress Plant Defenses","volume":"110","author":"Chung S. 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