| Title: | Airborne signals and abiotic factors: the neglected side of the plant communication |
| Address: | "Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. CIRSEC, Centre for Climatic Change Impact, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy" |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19420889.2020.1767482 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1942-0889 (Print) 1942-0889 (Electronic) 1942-0889 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "A relevant number of reports have examined the role of airborne signals in plant-plant communication, indicating that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can prime neighboring plants against pathogen and/or herbivore attacks. Conversely, there is very limited information available on the possibility of the emission of VOCs by emitter plants under abiotic stress conditions, which may alert neighboring unstressed plants and prime these individuals (receivers) against the same stressors. The present opinion paper briefly reviews a few reports examining the effect of infochemicals produced by emitters on receiver plants subjected to abiotic stresses typical of global climate change. The ecological implications of these dynamics, as well as some concerns related to the potential roles of inter-plant communication in environmentally controlled experiments, have arisen. Some possible inter-plant communications applications (biomonitoring and biostimulation), mediated by airborne signals, and some directions for future studies on this topic, are also provided" |
| Keywords: | Abiotic stress environmentally controlled conditions global change factors infochemicals inter-plant communication intraspecific volatile organic compounds volatilome; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINELandi, Marco eng Review 2020/06/04 Commun Integr Biol. 2020 May 18; 13(1):67-73. doi: 10.1080/19420889.2020.1767482. eCollection 2020" |
