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Malaria Journal, 2020 Background Mosquitoes use odours to find energy resources, blood hosts and oviposition sites. While these odour sources are normally spatio-temporally segregated in a mosquito’s life history, here this study explored to what extent a combination of ...
Elison E. Kemibala +8 more
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Transcriptome analysis of Polianthes tuberosa during floral scent formation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Polianthes tuberosa is a popular ornamental plant. Its floral scent volatiles mainly consist of terpenes and benzenoids that emit a charming fragrance. However, our understanding of the molecular mechanism responsible for the floral scent of P.
Ronghui Fan +5 more
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Floral Volatiles in Parasitic Plants of the Orobanchaceae. Ecological and Taxonomic Implications [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 The holoparasitic broomrapes, Orobanche spp. and Phelipanche spp. (Orobanchaceae), are root parasites that completely depend on a host plant for survival and reproduction. There is considerable controversy on the taxonomy of this biologically and agronomically important family. Flowers of over 25 parasitic Orobanchaceae and a number of close, parasitic
Tóth, Peter +3 more
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Plants, 2022 Sexually deceptive orchids are unusual among plants in that closely related species typically attract different pollinator species using contrasting blends of floral volatiles.
Alyssa M. Weinstein +3 more
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New Synthesis: The Evolutionary Ecology of Floral Volatiles [PDF]
Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2014 Natural selection is a key process of population to species divergence and diversification. Since Lande and Arnold’s 1983 seminal paper “The measurement of selection on correlated characters”, hundreds of evolutionary biologists have measured phenotypic selection in wild populations (Kingsolver et al. 2012).
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FLORAL-DERIVED VOLATILE COMPOUNDS: A ROLE IN POLLINATION? [PDF]
HortScience, 1990 Volatile compounds, commonly produced by flowers during bloom, have been described as insect attractants. Some of these compounds stimulate Pinus pollen germination in vitro (French et al., 1979, J. Agric. Fd.
Douglas D. Archbold +2 more
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Characterization of a petunia acetyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of the floral volatile isoeugenol [PDF]
The Plant Journal, 2006 SummaryPetunia flower petals emit large amounts of isoeugenol, which has been shown to be synthesized by isoeugenol synthase (PhIGS1) from an ester of coniferyl alcohol, hypothesized to be coniferyl acetate. This paper describes the identification and characterization of a novel petunia gene encoding an enzyme belonging to the BAHD acyltransferase ...
Dexter, Richard +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of four monofloral and one multifloral of Thai honeys produced by Apis cerana, Apis dorsata and Apis mellifera were analyzed by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) followed by gas chromatography and mass ...
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 Background Angiosperms employ an astonishing variety of visual and olfactory floral signals that are generally thought to evolve under natural selection. Those morphological and chemical traits can form highly correlated sets of traits.
Pengjuan Zu +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Insect-pollinated plants often release complex mixtures of floral scents to attract their pollinators. Yet scent compounds eliciting physiological or behavioural responses in pollinators have only been identified in few plant species.
Eva Gfrerer +6 more
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