Volatile compounds—the language of all kingdoms?

作者：A. Corina Vlot, Maaria Rosenkranz · 发表于：Journal of Experimental Botany · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1093/jxb/erab528 · 被引用次数：65 · 研究领域：Piperaceae Chemical and Biological Studies、Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis、Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were originally identified as communication compounds between plants and insects. Today, we know that VOCs are released by organisms of all kingdoms, including bacteria and fungi, and mediate diverse intra- and interspecific interactions both above- and below-ground. Following recent trends in this research field, the majority of reviews and research papers in this special issue focus on possible biological and ecological functions and various other aspects of microbial VOCs (mVOCs). Additional reviews and research papers highlight connections between microbe-induced plant VOCs, and their possible application in future sustainable crop protection strategies. Biogenic VOCs were detected as herbivore-induced plant signaling cues for the first time in the early 1980s (Baldwin and Schultz, 1983). The discovery by Dicke and Sabelis (1988) of VOC-mediated tritrophic interactions between plants, herbivores, and herbivore enemies started a new field of research that has been growing in many different directions ever since. Now, almost 40 years after the first findings on VOCs’ biological and ecological functions in plants, we know how diverse and complex VOC-mediated interspecific interactions can be. In this issue, one example of this complexity is the study of Davidovich-Rikanati et al. (2022) on Pistacia trees (Pistacia palaestina) and the gall-forming aphid Baizongia pistaciae. The authors identified that the aphid is able to reprogram the terpen...