Microorganisms release a chemically diverse range of volatile compounds which mediate interactions with other organisms and act as infochemicals in both intra and interspecific interactions. For example, microbial volatiles can play a key role in interactions between plants and insects, humans and blood feeding insects, in human-human communication, as well as microbial-microbial and plant-microbe interactions. Microbial volatiles can induce systemic resistance to pests in plants and affect the interactions of plants with beneficial insects such as carnivores and pollinators. Volatiles emitted by commensal human skin bacteria can render people more attractive to mosquitoes, which are vectors of pathogens. Volatiles emitted by skin bacteria can also be involved in the communication between humans, for example, mothers and their babies. This Research Topic aims to collect recent advances on the role of microbial volatiles in intraspecific and interspecific interactions, as well as exploring how we can unravel their ecological functions, while providing perspectives for the potential exploitation of such functions.
As well as the above, this collection aims to provide insights on the chemodiversity and evolution of microbial scent composition, and in the different approaches used to unravel the biological and ecological functions of such microbial scent mediated interactions, while providing perspectives for their exploitation.
We welcome mainly data papers, and some review papers, that are of relevance for our understanding of the role of microbial volatiles in:
● plant-pollinators interactions
● plant-herbivores interactions
● plant-microbe interactions
● human-mosquitoes’ interactions
● microbe-mosquitoes’ interactions
● microbe-microbe interactions
● human-human communication
from a fundamental and an applied perspective.
Microorganisms release a chemically diverse range of volatile compounds which mediate interactions with other organisms and act as infochemicals in both intra and interspecific interactions. For example, microbial volatiles can play a key role in interactions between plants and insects, humans and blood feeding insects, in human-human communication, as well as microbial-microbial and plant-microbe interactions. Microbial volatiles can induce systemic resistance to pests in plants and affect the interactions of plants with beneficial insects such as carnivores and pollinators. Volatiles emitted by commensal human skin bacteria can render people more attractive to mosquitoes, which are vectors of pathogens. Volatiles emitted by skin bacteria can also be involved in the communication between humans, for example, mothers and their babies. This Research Topic aims to collect recent advances on the role of microbial volatiles in intraspecific and interspecific interactions, as well as exploring how we can unravel their ecological functions, while providing perspectives for the potential exploitation of such functions.
As well as the above, this collection aims to provide insights on the chemodiversity and evolution of microbial scent composition, and in the different approaches used to unravel the biological and ecological functions of such microbial scent mediated interactions, while providing perspectives for their exploitation.
We welcome mainly data papers, and some review papers, that are of relevance for our understanding of the role of microbial volatiles in:
● plant-pollinators interactions
● plant-herbivores interactions
● plant-microbe interactions
● human-mosquitoes’ interactions
● microbe-mosquitoes’ interactions
● microbe-microbe interactions
● human-human communication
from a fundamental and an applied perspective.