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Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota

Plants communicate with microorganisms by exchanging chemical signals throughout the phytosphere. Such interactions are important not only for plant productivity and fitness, but also for terrestrial ecosystem functioning. It is known that beneficial microorganisms emit diffusible substances includi...

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Autores principales: Baroja-Fernández, Edurne, Almagro, Goizeder, Sánchez-López, Ángela María, Bahaji, Abdellatif, Gámez-Arcas, Samuel, De Diego, Nuria, Dolezal, Karel, Muñoz, Francisco José, Climent Sanz, Eric, Pozueta-Romero, Javier
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8566893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745186
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.752653
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author Baroja-Fernández, Edurne
Almagro, Goizeder
Sánchez-López, Ángela María
Bahaji, Abdellatif
Gámez-Arcas, Samuel
De Diego, Nuria
Dolezal, Karel
Muñoz, Francisco José
Climent Sanz, Eric
Pozueta-Romero, Javier
author_facet Baroja-Fernández, Edurne
Almagro, Goizeder
Sánchez-López, Ángela María
Bahaji, Abdellatif
Gámez-Arcas, Samuel
De Diego, Nuria
Dolezal, Karel
Muñoz, Francisco José
Climent Sanz, Eric
Pozueta-Romero, Javier
author_sort Baroja-Fernández, Edurne
collection PubMed
description Plants communicate with microorganisms by exchanging chemical signals throughout the phytosphere. Such interactions are important not only for plant productivity and fitness, but also for terrestrial ecosystem functioning. It is known that beneficial microorganisms emit diffusible substances including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that promote growth. Consistently, soil application of cell-free culture filtrates (CF) of beneficial soil and plant-associated microorganisms enhances plant growth and yield. However, how this treatment acts in plants and whether it alters the resident soil microbiota, are largely unknown. In this work we characterized the responses of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) plants cultured under both greenhouse and open field conditions and of soil microbiota to soil application of CFs of beneficial and phytopathogenic fungi. To evaluate the contribution of VOCs occurring in the CFs to these responses, we characterized the responses of plants and of soil microbiota to application of distillates (DE) of the fungal CFs. CFs and their respective DEs contained the same potentially biogenic VOCs, and application of these extracts enhanced root growth and fruit yield, and altered the nutritional characteristics of fruits. High-throughput amplicon sequencing of bacterial 16S and fungal ITS rRNA genes of the soil microbiota revealed that the CF and DE treatments altered the microbial community compositions, and led to strong enrichment of the populations of the same beneficial bacterial and fungal taxa. Our findings show that CFs of both beneficial and phytopathogenic fungi can be used as biostimulants, and provide evidence that VOCs occurring in the fungal CFs act as mediators of the plants’ responses to soil application of fungal CFs through stimulation of the beneficial soil microbiota.
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spelling pubmed-85668932021-11-05 Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota Baroja-Fernández, Edurne Almagro, Goizeder Sánchez-López, Ángela María Bahaji, Abdellatif Gámez-Arcas, Samuel De Diego, Nuria Dolezal, Karel Muñoz, Francisco José Climent Sanz, Eric Pozueta-Romero, Javier Front Plant Sci Plant Science Plants communicate with microorganisms by exchanging chemical signals throughout the phytosphere. Such interactions are important not only for plant productivity and fitness, but also for terrestrial ecosystem functioning. It is known that beneficial microorganisms emit diffusible substances including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that promote growth. Consistently, soil application of cell-free culture filtrates (CF) of beneficial soil and plant-associated microorganisms enhances plant growth and yield. However, how this treatment acts in plants and whether it alters the resident soil microbiota, are largely unknown. In this work we characterized the responses of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) plants cultured under both greenhouse and open field conditions and of soil microbiota to soil application of CFs of beneficial and phytopathogenic fungi. To evaluate the contribution of VOCs occurring in the CFs to these responses, we characterized the responses of plants and of soil microbiota to application of distillates (DE) of the fungal CFs. CFs and their respective DEs contained the same potentially biogenic VOCs, and application of these extracts enhanced root growth and fruit yield, and altered the nutritional characteristics of fruits. High-throughput amplicon sequencing of bacterial 16S and fungal ITS rRNA genes of the soil microbiota revealed that the CF and DE treatments altered the microbial community compositions, and led to strong enrichment of the populations of the same beneficial bacterial and fungal taxa. Our findings show that CFs of both beneficial and phytopathogenic fungi can be used as biostimulants, and provide evidence that VOCs occurring in the fungal CFs act as mediators of the plants’ responses to soil application of fungal CFs through stimulation of the beneficial soil microbiota. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8566893/ /pubmed/34745186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.752653 Text en Copyright © 2021 Baroja-Fernández, Almagro, Sánchez-López, Bahaji, Gámez-Arcas, De Diego, Dolezal, Muñoz, Climent Sanz and Pozueta-Romero. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Plant Science
Baroja-Fernández, Edurne
Almagro, Goizeder
Sánchez-López, Ángela María
Bahaji, Abdellatif
Gámez-Arcas, Samuel
De Diego, Nuria
Dolezal, Karel
Muñoz, Francisco José
Climent Sanz, Eric
Pozueta-Romero, Javier
Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota
title Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota
title_full Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota
title_fullStr Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota
title_short Enhanced Yield of Pepper Plants Promoted by Soil Application of Volatiles From Cell-Free Fungal Culture Filtrates Is Associated With Activation of the Beneficial Soil Microbiota
title_sort enhanced yield of pepper plants promoted by soil application of volatiles from cell-free fungal culture filtrates is associated with activation of the beneficial soil microbiota
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8566893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745186
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.752653
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