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REVIEW article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Sustainable and Intelligent Phytoprotection
Volume 15 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1430863
Potential of volatile organic compounds in the management of insect pests and diseases of food legumes: A Comprehensive Review
Provisionally accepted- 1 Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
- 2 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat, Morocco
- 3 Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research, Rabat, Morocco
Cool season legumes (Faba bean, chickpea, lentil, pea, and grass pea) are important protein harvests for food and nutrition security in many countries. They play key roles in sustainable cereal production through their ecological benefits. However, diseases and pests attack continue to have a substantial impact on crop yield and quality. Although growers used different control options to manage these biotic stresses such as pesticide application, cultural practices, and resistant varieties, there is a pressing need for the development of new, more cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution to help farmers in facing the existing environmental issues.The management of diseases and pests attacking food legumes remains a critical challenge that directly affects crop yield and quality. Pesticide application, cultural practices, biopesticides, natural enemies, resistant varieties and integrating two or more control options are used by growers to manage these biotic stresses.Recently, there is a growing interest among researchers in exploiting Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) for the elaboration of disease and pest control strategies in food legumes and other crops. These compounds have important functions in ecological relationships occurring between plants and their surrounding environment, as well as plants and others species, such as pests and pathogens. Due to their unique properties, VOCs can be employed to enhance plant development and protect plant from insect pest infestations and disease incursions. Due to the availability of low-cost sensor devices, VOCs can be incorporated into host plant resistance breeding programs and integrated pest control practices. In this assessment, we investigated the role of VOCs in improving management alternatives for food legume diseases and pests.In this assessment, we investigated the role of VOCs in plant-pest and plant-pathogen interactions and their present applications in pest and diseases control strategies. We emphasized the ecological importance of employing plant VOCs in legume farming and crop breeding. Additionally, we highlighted the potential of microbial VOCs in facilitating microbemicrobe, microbe-plant and microbe-plant-pest interactions, along with their role in food legume protection.
Keywords: Food legumes, Volatile Organic Compounds, Microbial VOCs, Pest and disease management, cropping systems, crop breeding, Pest and disease resistance
Received: 10 May 2024; Accepted: 04 Sep 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Makhlouf, Karim, Kemal, Maafa, Meftah Kadmiri and El-Bouhssini. 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) or licensor 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.
* Correspondence:
Leila Makhlouf, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
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