Extended Plant Metarhizobiome: Understanding Volatile Organic Compound Signaling in Plant-Microbe Metapopulation Networks.

ABSTRACT: Plant rhizobiomes consist of microbes that are influenced by the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the plant root system. While plant-microbe interactions are generally thought to be local, accumulating evidence suggests that topologically disconnected bulk soil microbiomes could be linked with plants and their associated rhizospheric microbes through volatile organic compounds (VOCs). While several studies have focused on the effect of soil physicochemical properties for VOC movement, it is less clear how VOC signaling is affected by microbial communities themselves when VOCs travel across soils. To gain a better understanding of this, we propose that soil microbe-plant communities could be viewed as "metarhizobiomes," where VOC-mediated interactions extend the plant rhizob

SUBMITTER: Raza W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8407245 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature