mSystems (Aug 2021)

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

  • Waseem Raza,
  • Zhong Wei,
  • Alexandre Jousset,
  • Qirong Shen,
  • Ville-Petri Friman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00849-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4

Abstract

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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).