Accepted Manuscript © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com Ethylene functions as a suppressor of volatile production in rice Kadis Mujiono 1,2 , Tilisa Tohi 1 , Islam S. Sobhy 1,3, # , Yuko Hojo 1 , Nhan Thanh Ho 1,4 , Tomonori Shinya 1 , Ivan Galis 1* 1 Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki 710-0046, Japan 2 Faculty of Agriculture, Mulawarman University, Samarinda 75119, Indonesia 3 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal university, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt 4 Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute, Can Tho, Vietnam kadismujiono@yahoo.com; tilisamounga@gmail.com; i.sobhy@keele.ac.uk; y-hojo@okayama- u.ac.jp; htnhan07@gmail.com; shinyat@okayama-u.ac.jp; igalis@okayama-u.ac.jp # Current address: School of Life Sciences, Huxley Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK * Corresponding author contact information Email: igalis@okayama-u.ac.jp Tel: +81-(0)86-434-1235 Kadis Mujiono (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-0706-3149) Islam S. Sobhy (Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4984-1823) Tomonori Shinya (Orcid ID: 0000-0003-1837-138X) Ivan Galis (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-9840-8845) Highlight: We show that ethylene acts as a general suppressor of volatile organic compound (VOC) production in rice plants during development and stress responses, including water submergence, and maturation-associated decrease in rice volatile production. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/eraa341/5874908 by University of Keele user on 25 July 2020