Journal
FUNGAL ECOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 28-36Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2018.09.005
Keywords
Infochemicals; Phenotypic plasticity; Fungivores; Fungus-insect interactions; 1-octen-3-ol; Defence; Induced resistance; Wound-activation
Funding
- DFG research grant [RO3523/3-2]
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Eight-carbon volatiles are characteristic of the odour profile of many filamentous fungi. They derive from enzymatic or non-enzymatic lipid oxidation and are thus termed volatile oxylipins. Collectively, nonvolatile and volatile fungal oxylipins are important hormone-like factors that regulate the phenotypic status of a fungus, i.e. growth, morphological differentiation and secondary metabolite production. Given this intimate link between oxylipin formation and phenotypic change, we propose that the release of volatile oxylipins is an important means by which fungi may influence the course and outcome of interactions with animals. Such invertebrate - fungus interactions are intricate inter kingdom relationships where either one depends on the other, or both on each other, where one is to the others benefit or detriment - eventually having even consequences on third parties and thus influencing whole food webs. In this review, we first highlight the connections between oxylipin formation and fungal phenotypic changes, how they affect invertebrate interactions and vice versa. We then expand this by implementing eight-carbon volatiles as infochemicals. Infochemicals are cues or signals perceived by the invertebrates' chemical senses, that are to the invertebrates' or the fungus' benefit or detriment, through the behavioural responses they elicit. We point out, with various examples, that there is a strong analogy between fungus-invertebrate interactions mediated by fungal eight-carbon volatiles and plant-herbivore interactions mediated by six-carbon green-leaf volatiles released from wounded or stressed plants. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd.]
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