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Curr Biol

Title:		Plant volatiles
Author(s):		Baldwin IT;
Address:		"Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany. Baldwin@ice.mpg.de"
Journal Title:		Curr Biol
Year:		2010
Volume:		20
Issue:		9
Page Number:		R392 - R397
DOI:		10.1016/j.cub.2010.02.052
ISSN/ISBN:		1879-0445 (Electronic) 0960-9822 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Plant volatiles are the metabolites that plants release into the air. The quantities released are not trivial. Almost one-fifth of the atmospheric CO2 fixed by land plants is released back into the air each day as volatiles. Plants are champion synthetic chemists; they take advantage of their anabolic prowess to produce volatiles, which they use to protect themselves against biotic and abiotic stresses and to provide information - and potentially disinformation - to mutualists and competitors alike. As transferors of information, volatiles have provided plants with solutions to the challenges associated with being rooted in the ground and immobile"
Keywords:		*Plant Physiological Phenomena Plants/*metabolism Terpenes/metabolism Volatile Organic Compounds/*metabolism;
Notes:		"MedlineBaldwin, Ian T eng Review England 2010/05/14 Curr Biol. 2010 May 11; 20(9):R392-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.02.052"