González-Mas Natalia, Gutiérrez-Sánchez Fernando, Sánchez-Ortiz Araceli, Grandi Luca, Turlings Ted C J, Manuel Muñoz-Redondo José, Moreno-Rojas José Manuel, Quesada-Moraga Enrique
Departamento de Agronomía, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y de Montes (ETSIAM), Universidad de Córdoba, ceiA3, Campus Rabanales, Córdoba, Spain.
Department of Food Science and Health, Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Ctr Venta del Llano, Jaén, Spain.
Front Plant Sci. 2021 Jul 26;12:660460. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.660460. eCollection 2021.
Entomopathogenic fungi are gaining acceptance in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems as effective and environmental safety biological control agents to protect a great variety of crops against pest insects. Many of these insect-pathogenic fungi can establish themselves as endophytes and thereby may induce the plant immune system. The activation of plant defenses by the fungal endophytic colonization can have a direct impact on herbivores and plant pathogens. An integral component of many plant defense responses is also the release of volatile organic compounds, which may serve as an indirect defense by attracting the natural enemies of herbivores. Here we investigated the effect of endophytic colonization by the entomopathogenic fungus on the volatile emission by melon and cotton plants, either unharmed or after being damaged by sap-sucking aphids or leaf chewing caterpillars. We found that when the plants are colonized by they emit a different blend of volatile compounds compared to uncolonized control plants. Some of the emitted compounds have been reported previously to be released in response to herbivory and have been implicated in natural enemy attraction. Several of the compounds are also known to have antimicrobial properties. Therefore, endophytic colonization by might help to not only direct control insect pests but also increase the resistance of plants against agronomically important pests and phytopathogens.
昆虫病原真菌作为有效的、环境安全的生物防治剂,在综合虫害管理(IPM)系统中越来越被认可,可用于保护多种作物免受害虫侵害。许多这类昆虫病原真菌能够定殖为内生菌,从而可能诱导植物免疫系统。真菌内生菌定殖激活植物防御,可直接影响食草动物和植物病原体。许多植物防御反应的一个重要组成部分也是挥发性有机化合物的释放,这些化合物可通过吸引食草动物的天敌起到间接防御作用。在此,我们研究了昆虫病原真菌内生菌定殖对甜瓜和棉花植株挥发性物质释放的影响,这些植株要么未受伤害,要么在被吸食汁液的蚜虫或咀嚼叶片的毛虫损害之后。我们发现,当植株被定殖后,与未定殖的对照植株相比,它们释放出不同的挥发性化合物混合物。先前已有报道,其中一些释放出的化合物是对食草动物侵害的响应,并与吸引天敌有关。其中几种化合物也已知具有抗菌特性。因此,被定殖可能不仅有助于直接控制害虫,还能增强植物对具有重要农业意义的害虫和植物病原体的抗性。