Induced volatiles in elicitor-treated and rice blast fungus-inoculated rice leaves.

Naomi Obara, Morifumi Hasegawa, Osamu Kodama

Index: Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 66(12) , 2549-59, (2002)

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Abstract

The volatiles released from elicitor (copper chloride, jasmonic acid, UV, L-methionine and chitosan oligomer)-treated and rice blast fungus-inoculated rice leaves were collected by the solid-phase microextraction technique and analyzed by GC-MS. (Z)-3-Hexen-1-ol, monoterpenes, methyl salicylate, and sesquiterpenes were identified as elicitor-induced volatiles by a comparison of their GC retention times and mass spectra with those of authentic compounds. The different elicitors resulted in some qualitative and quantitative differences in the production of volatiles. Monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes were identified as the rice blast fungus-induced volatiles.