“…The PSM 6-methoxybenzoxazolinone (6-MBOA) is mainly produced during the early growth stages of plants belonging to the family Gramineae ( Argandoña et al, 1981 ; Niemeyer, 1988 ; Acharya et al, 2021 ). Although 6-MBOA is mainly known to stimulate the reproduction of certain animals ( Dai et al, 2016 ) such as rodents ( Berger et al, 1981 ; Alibhai, 1986 ; Anderson et al, 1988 ; Nelson and Shiber, 1990 ; Martin et al, 2008 ; Dai et al, 2016 ) and rabbits ( Rodríguez-De Lara et al, 2007 ), it has diverse effects and acts as a defense compound against insect feeding and digestion ( Klun and Brindley, 1966 ; Campos et al, 1988 ; Houseman et al, 1992 ; Dowd and Vega, 1996 ; Maag et al, 2014 ), in addition to restraining the growth of microbes such as Escherichia coli , Proteus rulgaris , Cephalosporium gramineum , Fusarium oxysporum , Coprinus comatus , Rhizoctonia solani , and Pythium species ( Wang et al, 2001 ; Wang and Ng, 2002 ; Martyniuk et al, 2006 ; Acharya et al, 2021 ). This metabolite can also alter root-associated microbiota in maize ( Hu et al, 2018 ).…”