Journal
MICROORGANISMS
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10122479
Keywords
phytochemicals; root exudates; phytobiome; plant-microbe interactions; beneficial microbes; plant secondary metabolites; abiotic stress; biotic stress; rhizosphere; microbiome
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Funding
- European Union [841317]
- Cariplo Foundation [2021-0742]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [841317] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Flavonoids play diverse and crucial roles in plants, helping them cope with various stresses and improve their adaptability to the environment. They not only participate in plant-to-plant interactions but also act as signaling molecules that mediate communication between plants and microorganisms or macroorganisms. Additionally, flavonoids are important phytochemicals in the human diet, with potential nutraceutical, probiotic, and medicinal properties.
Flavonoids are a broad class of secondary metabolites with multifaceted functionalities for plant homeostasis and are involved in facing both biotic and abiotic stresses to sustain plant growth and health. Furthermore, they were discovered as mediators of plant networking with the surrounding environment, showing a surprising ability to perform as signaling compounds for a multitrophic inter-kingdom level of communication that influences the plant host at the phytobiome scale. Flavonoids orchestrate plant-neighboring plant allelopathic interactions, recruit beneficial bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, counteract pathogen outbreak, influence soil microbiome and affect plant physiology to improve its resilience to fluctuating environmental conditions. This review focuses on the diversified spectrum of flavonoid functions in plants under a variety of stresses in the modulation of plant morphogenesis in response to environmental clues, as well as their role as inter-kingdom signaling molecules with micro- and macroorganisms. Regarding the latter, the review addresses flavonoids as key phytochemicals in the human diet, considering their abundance in fruits and edible plants. Recent evidence highlights their role as nutraceuticals, probiotics and as promising new drugs for the treatment of several pathologies.
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