Institute of Environmental Research (INFU) of the Faculty of Chemistry, Chair of Environmental Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
Phytochemistry. 2013 Jul;91:81-7. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.07.021. Epub 2012 Sep 3.
The biosynthetic potential of endophytic fungi has gained impetus in recent times owing to the continual discovery of fungal endophytes capable of synthesizing plant compounds. However, the sustained production of the desired plant compounds has not yet been achieved using endophytes. It is thus imperative to investigate the diverse interactions that endophytes have with coexisting endophytes, host plants, insect pests, and other specific herbivores. The precise role of these associations on the endophytic production of host plant compounds is mostly overlooked and open to future discoveries. Here, highlighted are the implications of the poorly investigated links and molecular mechanisms that might trigger similar chemical responses in both plants and endophytes. Elucidating such connections can not only enhance the understanding of evolution of complex defense mechanisms in plants and associated organisms, but also help in the sustained production of plant compounds using endophytes harbored within them.
近年来，由于不断发现能够合成植物化合物的真菌内生菌，内生真菌的生物合成潜力得到了推动。然而，内生菌还未能持续生产所需的植物化合物。因此，有必要研究内生菌与共存内生菌、宿主植物、害虫和其他特定食草动物之间的各种相互作用。这些关联对内生植物化合物产生的精确作用在很大程度上被忽视了，有待未来的发现。在这里，突出强调了这些关联的意义，以及可能在植物和内生菌中引发类似化学反应的分子机制。阐明这些联系不仅可以增强对植物和相关生物中复杂防御机制进化的理解，而且有助于利用内生菌中存在的内生菌来持续生产植物化合物。
