Overview
- Complete overview on plant volatiles
- Highlights methods for analysing plant language
- Gives future directions for deciphering plant chemical
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Plant Volatiles: Complexity of Chemical Messages
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Ecology of Volatile-Mediated Communication Processes
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Mechanisms of Volatile Detection by Plants
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Synthesis and Future Directions
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About this book
This book provides an overview of the intricacies of plant communication via volatile chemicals. Plants produce an extraordinarily vast array of chemicals, which provide community members with detailed information about the producer’s identity, physiology and phenology. Volatile organic chemicals, either as individual compounds or complex chemical blends, are a communication medium operating between plants and any organism able to detect the compounds and respond. The ecological and evolutionary origins of particular interactions between plants and the greater community have been, and will continue to be, strenuously debated. However, it is clear that chemicals, and particularly volatile chemicals, constitute a medium akin to a linguistic tool. As well as possessing a rich chemical vocabulary, plants are known to detect and respond to chemical cues. These cues can originate from neighbouring plants, or other associated community members. This book beginswith chapters on the complexity of chemical messages, provides a broad perspective on a range of ecological interactions mediated by volatile chemicals, and extends to cutting edge developments on the detection of chemicals by plants.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication
Editors: James D. Blande, Robert Glinwood
Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33498-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33496-7Published: 02 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81530-5Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33498-1Published: 26 July 2016
Series ISSN: 1867-9048
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology