Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects

Li, Hongjie; Young, Soleil E.; Poulsen, Michael; Currie, Cameron R.

doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140

Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects

Journal Article · Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Annual Review of Entomology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140· OSTI ID:1764729

Li, Hongjie ^[1]; Young, Soleil E. ^[2]; Poulsen, Michael ^[3]; Currie, Cameron R. ^[2]

Ningbo Univ. (China); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play in plant-feeding insects. Here, some ants, beetles, and termites, among others, have evolved the ability to use microbes to gain indirect access to plant substrate through the farming of a fungus on which they feed. Recent genomic studies, including studies of insect hosts and fungal and bacterial symbionts, as well as metagenomics and proteomics, have provided important insights into plant biomass digestion across insect–fungal mutualisms. Not only do advances in understanding of the divergent and complementary functions of complex symbionts reveal the mechanism of how these herbivorous insects catabolize plant biomass, but these symbionts also represent a promising reservoir for novel carbohydrate-active enzyme discovery, which is of considerable biotechnological interest.

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Research Organization:: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: European Research Council Consolidator; National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Science Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: FC02-07ER64494; SC0018409

OSTI ID:: 1764729

Journal Information:: Annual Review of Entomology, Journal Name: Annual Review of Entomology Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 66; ISSN 0066-4170

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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