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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN-EID) INTERFUTURE grant infomation:

Call: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016

Grant Agreement: n. 722642

Title project: From microbial interactions to new-concept biopesticides and biofertilizers

Coordinator: Michele Perazzolli

Funding: EU under project number H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 - 722642

Timeframe: 01.12.2016-31.05.2021

University/Department: Fondazione Edmund Mach, Department of Sustainable Agroecosystems and Bioresources

Network Partners: Fondazione Edmund Mach (Coordinator), Italy; University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , Austria; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; University of Molise, Italy; BIOBEST, Belgium; BIPA NV, Belgium; INOQ GmbH, Germany; Azotic Technologies Ltd, UK; De Ceuster Meststoffen NV (DCM), Belgium; e-nema GmbH, germany; University of Trento, Italy

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Ecological Role of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by Pantoea agglomerans as Interspecies and Interkingdom Signals

Microorganisms 2021, 9, 1186. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9061186

Ecological Role of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by Pantoea agglomerans as Interspecies and Interkingdom Signals

Maria Vasseur-Coronado, Anthi Vlassi, Hervé Dupré du Boulois, Rainer Schuhmacher, Alexandra Parich, Ilaria Pertot and Gerardo Puopolo

INFORMATIVE ABSTRACT - Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play an essential role in microbe–microbe and plant–microbe interactions. Researchers have investigated the interaction between two plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, and their interaction with tomato plants.

The study shows that VOCs produced by P. agglomerans MVC 21 boosted the ability of Pseudomonas (Ps.) putida MVC 17 to increase lateral root density and root dry weight of tomato seedlings. The results identify the emission of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) as the key-action that establishes a beneficial interaction between P. agglomerans MVC 21, Ps. putida MVC 17 and tomato plants. This is possible because P. agglomerans MVC 21 VOCs is able to modulate the release of siderophores, the solubilisation of phosphate and potassium by Ps. putida MVC 17.