Asclepias syriaca

Common Names: common milkweed

Ethnobotanical Studies

Studies

Heat waves induce milkweed resistance to a specialist herbivore via increased toxicity and reduced nutrient content.

López-Goldar X et al (2024).
Plant Cell Environ.
DOI:
10.1111/pce.15040
PubMed:
39011992

Differential impacts of land-use change on multiple components of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) pollination success.

Rockow DJ, Martel C and Arceo-Gómez G (2024).
Ecol Evol.
DOI:
10.1002/ece3.11494
PubMed:
38855315

Investigation of the Allelopathic Effect of Two Invasive Plant Species in Rhizotron System.

Bakacsy L et al (2024).
Life (Basel).
DOI:
10.3390/life14040475
PubMed:
38672746

Urbanization and a green corridor do not impact genetic divergence in common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.).

Breitbart ST et al (2023).
Sci Rep.
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-023-47524-8
PubMed:
37993590

Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense.

López-Goldar X and Agrawal AA (2023).
Evolution.
DOI:
10.1093/evolut/qpad155
PubMed:
37656826

Temporal matches between monarch butterfly and milkweed population changes over the past 25,000 years.

Boyle JH et al (2023).
Curr Biol.
DOI:
10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.057
PubMed:
37607548

Plant invasion and fragmentation indirectly and contrastingly affect native plants and grassland arthropods.

Gallé R et al (2023).
Sci Total Environ.
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166199
PubMed:
37572908

Tissue-specific plant toxins and adaptation in a specialist root herbivore.

Agrawal AA and Hastings AP (2023).
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2302251120
PubMed:
37216531

A comparative study on electrochemical performance of KOH activated carbons derived from different biomass sources - Musa acuminata stem, Pongamia pinnata seed oil extract cake, cajanus cajan stem and Asclepias syriaca floss.

Byatarayappa G et al (2023).
Heliyon.
DOI:
10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15399
PubMed:
37128347

No physiological costs of dual sequestration of chemically different plant toxins in the milkweed bug Spilostethus saxatilis (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae).

Espinosa Del Alba L and Petschenka G (2023).
J Insect Physiol.
DOI:
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2023.104508
PubMed:
37011856

The timing of heat waves has multiyear effects on milkweed and its insect community.

Cope OL et al (2023).
Ecology.
DOI:
10.1002/ecy.3988
PubMed:
36756764

Compound-Specific Behavioral and Enzymatic Resistance to Toxic Milkweed Cardenolides in a Generalist Bumblebee Pollinator.

Jones PL et al (2023).
J Chem Ecol.
DOI:
10.1007/s10886-023-01408-3
PubMed:
36745328

Role of plant relatedness in plant-soil feedback dynamics of sympatric Asclepias species.

Duell EB, Bever JD and Wilson GWT (2023).
Ecol Evol.
DOI:
10.1002/ece3.9763
PubMed:
36713479

Aphid species specializing on milkweed harbor taxonomically similar bacterial communities that differ in richness and relative abundance of core symbionts.

Summary

This study investigated whether host plant specialization affects the diversity and composition of bacterial communities within milkweed aphids. Despite overlap in taxa detected across all three aphid species, structural differences were identified within communities. Bacterial community diversity did not vary with degree of aphid host plant specialization, but the narrow specialist A. asclepiadis had significantly higher relative abundances of the facultative symbiont Arsenophonus compared to the other two aphid species. This study highlights how low abundance microbes can have important ecological effects in shaping microbiomes within herbivore species.

Neuroscience
Enders L et al (2022).
Sci Rep.
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-022-25554-y
PubMed:
36477425

Herbivory, plant traits and nectar chemistry interact to affect the community of insect visitors and pollination in common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca.

Gustafson NW, Couture JJ and Dalgleish HJ (2023).
Oecologia.
DOI:
10.1007/s00442-022-05290-w
PubMed:
36456875

Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed.

Edwards CB, Ellner SP and Agrawal AA (2023).
Ecology.
DOI:
10.1002/ecy.3915
PubMed:
36336890

Eastern monarch larval performance may not be affected by shifts in phenological synchrony with milkweed.

Gilmour SM and Kharouba HM (2022).
Ecol Evol.
DOI:
10.1002/ece3.9131
PubMed:
35949530

Functional evidence supports adaptive plant chemical defense along a geographical cline.

Agrawal AA et al (2022).
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2205073119
PubMed:
35696564

Host Plant Species Influences the Composition of Milkweed and Monarch Microbiomes.

Hansen TE and Enders LS (2022).
Front Microbiol.
DOI:
10.3389/fmicb.2022.840078
PubMed:
35283842

Estimating Perceptual Range of Female Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to Potted Vegetative Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Blooming Nectar Resources.

Fisher KE and Bradbury SP (2021).
Environ Entomol.
DOI:
10.1093/ee/nvab058
PubMed:
34184061

Survival and regeneration ability of clonal common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) after a single herbicide treatment in natural open sand grasslands.

Genetics
Bakacsy L and Bagi I (2020).
Sci Rep.
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-020-71202-8
PubMed:
32848181

A draft genome and transcriptome of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) as resources for evolutionary, ecological, and molecular studies in milkweeds and Apocynaceae.

Genetics
Weitemier K et al (2019).
PeerJ.
DOI:
10.7717/peerj.7649
PubMed:
31579586

Habitat Type Influences Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Oviposition and Egg Survival on Asclepias syriaca (Gentianales: Apocynaceae).

Myers A, Bahlai CA and Landis DA (2019).
Environ Entomol.
DOI:
10.1093/ee/nvz046
PubMed:
31074487

Asclepias Syriaca (Common Milkweed) flowering date shift in response to climate change.

Howard AF et al (2018).
Sci Rep.
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-018-36152-2
PubMed:
30546038

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca (Apocynaceae).

Kabat SM, Dick CW and Hunter MD (2010).
Am J Bot.
DOI:
10.3732/ajb.1000064
PubMed:
21622436

Building a model: developing genomic resources for common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with low coverage genome sequencing.

Genetics
Straub SC et al (2011).
BMC Genomics.
DOI:
10.1186/1471-2164-12-211
PubMed:
21542930

Acylated-oxypregnane glycosides from the roots of Asclepias syriaca.

Phytochemistry
Warashina T and Noro T (2009).
Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo).
PubMed:
19182408

Uzarigenin and desglucouzarin from Asclepias syriaca L.

BAUER S et al (1961).
Experientia.
PubMed:
13687937

Quercetin and its glycosides in the flowers of Asclepias syriaca L.

Phytochemistry
Sikorska M and Matławska I (2000).
Acta Pol Pharm.
PubMed:
11126623