Endophytes Crop Productivity and Protection Volume 2 (Sustainable Development and Biodiversity)

Table 11.2

List of endophytic bacterial and fungal VOCs and their effects on plants, bacteria, and fungi

Bacterial and fungalstrains

Host plant

Identi

fi

ed volatile compound

Effectiveon

Effect on interacting organisms

References

Bacillus atrophaeusXW2

Populus tremula

Volatile mixture

Fungi andplants

Volatiles produced by XW2 inhibitedhyphal growth of

Colletotrichum

gloeosporioides

by 60.2% and were

antagonistic against the germinationof

C. gloeosporioides

spores

Huang et al.(^2015

)

Bacillus megateriumstrain

BP17

Piper nigrum

Pyrazine, 2-ethyl-3-methyl-;Pyrazine, 2,5-dimethyl-; Pyrazine,ethyl-; and Pyrazine, methyl

Fungi andplants

BmBP17 released antimicrobialvolatiles against several pathogens,viz.,

Phytophthora capsici, Pythium

myriotylum, Athelia rolfsii,Gibberella moniliformis,Colletotrichum gloeosporioides,Rhizoctonia solani, Magnaportheoryzae, Ralstonia solanacearum

, and

Xanthomonas axonopodis

pv.

Punicae

and which can be exploited

for crop protection

Munjal et al.(^2016

)

Bacillus

sp. B55

Nicotianaattenuate

Dimethyl disulphide (DMDS)

Plants

Growth promotion

Meldau et al.(^2013

)

Burkholderia ambifaria Zea mays

Dimethyl di- and trisul

fi

de,

4-octanone, S-methylmethanethiosulphonate,1-phenylpropan-1-one, and2-undecanone, while dimethyltrisul

fide, 1-methylthio-3-pentanone,

and o-aminoacetophenone

Plants

Biomass increase in the model plantArabidopsis thaliana

as well as

growth inhibition of twophytopathogenic fungi (

Rhizoctonia

solani

and

Alternaria alternata

)

Groenhagenet al. (

2013

)

Enterobacter aerogenes Zea mays

2,3-butanediol

Fungi andplants

The production of 2,3-BD by

E.

aerogenes

rendered maize plants

more resistant against the Northerncorn leaf blight fungus

Setosphaeria

turcica

D

’Alessandro

et al. (

2014

)

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