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The evolutionary plant–herbivore arms race sometimes gives rise to remarkably unique adaptation strategies. Here we report one such strategy in the lepidopteran herbivore  Manduca sexta  against its hostplant  Nicotiana attenuata 's major phytotoxins, 17-hydroxygeranyllinalool diterpene glycoside, lyciumoside IV and its malonylated forms. We show that alkalinity of larval regurgitant non-enzymatically demalonylates the malonylated forms to lyciumoside IV. Lyciumoside IV is then detoxified in the midgut by  β-glucosidase 1 -catalysed deglycosylation, which is unusual, as typically the deglycosylation of glycosylated phytochemicals by insects results in the opposite: toxin activation. Suppression of deglucosylation by silencing larval  β-glucosidase 1  by plant-mediated RNAi causes moulting impairments and mortality. In the native habitat of  N. attenuata ,  β-glucosidase 1  silencing also increases larval unpalatability to native predatory spiders, suggesting that the defensive co-option of lyciumoside IV may be ecologically advantageous. We infer that  M. sexta  detoxifies this allelochemical to avoid its deleterious effects, rather than co-opting it against predators.

Detoxification of hostplant’s chemical defence rather than its anti-predator co-option drives β-glucosidase-mediated lepidopteran counteradaptation