Deciphering plant health status: The link between secondary metabolites, fungal community and disease incidence in olive tree.

ABSTRACT: Plant-associated microorganisms are increasingly recognized to play key roles in host health. Among several strategies, associated microorganisms can promote the production of specific metabolites by their hosts. However, there is still a huge gap in the understanding of such mechanisms in plant-microorganism interaction. Here, we want to determine whether different levels of olive leaf spot (OLS) disease incidence were related to differences in the composition of fungal and secondary metabolites (i.e. phenolic and volatile compounds) in leaves from olive tree cultivars with contrasting OLS susceptibilities (ranging from tolerant to highly susceptible). Accordingly, leaves with three levels of OLS incidence from both cultivars were used to assess epiphytic and endophytic fungal comm

SUBMITTER: Gomes T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10073708 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature