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Multi-Pronged Investigation of Volatile Compound-Mediated Interactions of Fusarium oxysporum with Plants, Fungi, and Bacteria

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Fusarium wilt

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Abstract

Proteins and many biogenic compounds require water as a medium for movement. However, because volatile compounds (VCs) can travel through the air and porous soils due to their ability to vaporize at ambient temperature, they can mediate diverse intra- and inter-kingdom interactions and perform ecologically functions even in the absence of water. Here, we describe several tools and approaches for investigating how Fusarium oxysporum interacts with plants and other microbes through VCs and how VC-mediated interactions affect its ecology and pathology. We also present a method for capturing F. oxysporum VCs for analysis via gas chromatography linked to mass spectrometry.

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Acknowledgments

The protocols and systems described here have been developed using support from the USDA Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (AM170200XXXXG006), the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Federal Appropriations (Project PEN04655; Accession # 1016291), the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (Grant # 2019VCA0022), and the Brian Pool program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant # 2019H1D3A2A01054562).

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Ningxiao Li & Seogchan Kang

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Li, N., Kang, S. (2022). Multi-Pronged Investigation of Volatile Compound-Mediated Interactions of Fusarium oxysporum with Plants, Fungi, and Bacteria. In: Coleman, J. (eds) Fusarium wilt. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2391. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1795-3_10

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