TY - JOUR
T1 - Stop and smell the fungi
T2 - Fungal volatile metabolites are overlooked signals involved in fungal interaction with plants
AU - Li, Ningxiao
AU - Alfiky, Alsayed
AU - Vaughan, Martha M.
AU - Kang, Seogchan
N1 - Funding Information:
Li has been supported by a training grant from the USDA-NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (award # 2010-65110-20488 ) and an award from the Storkan-Hanes-McCaslin Foundation. Our research on fungal VOCs has been supported by the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences (Jeanne & Charles Rider Endowment Award and Strategic Collaboration Seed Grant), the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences , and the Penn State Center for Environment geoChemistry and Genomics . We would like to thank the Fulbright Program for supporting Alfiky's work at Penn State. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 British Mycological Society
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Diverse fungi are intimately associated with plants, and molecules secreted from both the plant and fungal sides play critical roles in the establishment of their associations and affect plant growth and health. Through evolutionary arms races or strategic alliances with plants, fungi and other microbes have invented a bewildering array of secreted molecules to parasitize or communicate with plants. Research empowered by omics data and tools has greatly advanced understanding of the nature, role and mechanism of action of many secreted fungal proteins that affect plants directly or indirectly. However, available information about fungal volatile metabolites with similar functions is quite limited. Through this review, we aim to stimulate expeditions to this vastly under-explored frontier of fungal chemical ecology.
AB - Diverse fungi are intimately associated with plants, and molecules secreted from both the plant and fungal sides play critical roles in the establishment of their associations and affect plant growth and health. Through evolutionary arms races or strategic alliances with plants, fungi and other microbes have invented a bewildering array of secreted molecules to parasitize or communicate with plants. Research empowered by omics data and tools has greatly advanced understanding of the nature, role and mechanism of action of many secreted fungal proteins that affect plants directly or indirectly. However, available information about fungal volatile metabolites with similar functions is quite limited. Through this review, we aim to stimulate expeditions to this vastly under-explored frontier of fungal chemical ecology.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fbr.2016.06.004
DO - 10.1016/j.fbr.2016.06.004
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84979695241
SN - 1749-4613
VL - 30
SP - 134
EP - 144
JO - Fungal Biology Reviews
JF - Fungal Biology Reviews
IS - 3
ER -