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Exploring Plants Strategies for Allelochemical Detoxification

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The success of allelopathic plants is characterized by the releases of allelochemicals that suppress the growth of receiver plants directly and indirectly, due to concomitant effects on their microbiome. Therefore, negative effects of allelochemicals on microorganisms can enhance repercussions on plants. On the other hand, plants exposed to allelochemicals develop strategies to eliminate, detoxify or degrade the compounds, whereby plants can take advantage of metabolic properties of microorganisms associated with the root surface and the rhizosphere. Peroxidases and glucosyltransferases have important functions in those processes. In this chapter, methods are presented which allow an estimation of the extent of microbiome damage due to allelochemicals (signature lipid biomarker analysis combined with next generation sequencing). Assays for the determination of glucosyltransferases and peroxidases, important enzyme classes in detoxification processes, are presented with emphasis on benzoxazolinone detoxification as an example for the involvement of microorganisms in reaction sequences. Finally, methods to study alterations in the composition of cell wall polymers are presented as cell wall polymers can be modified during detoxification reactions.

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    Margot Schulz & Meike Siebers

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    Nico Anders

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Schulz, M., Siebers, M., Anders, N. (2018). Exploring Plants Strategies for Allelochemical Detoxification. In: Sánchez-Moreiras, A., Reigosa, M. (eds) Advances in Plant Ecophysiology Techniques. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93233-0_23

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