A robust, simple, high-throughput technique for time-resolved plant volatile analysis in field experiments.

ABSTRACT: Plant volatiles (PVs) mediate interactions between plants and arthropods, microbes and other plants, and are involved in responses to abiotic stress. PV emissions are therefore influenced by many environmental factors, including herbivore damage, microbial invasion, and cues from neighboring plants, and also light regime, temperature, humidity and nutrient availability. Thus, an understanding of the physiological and ecological functions of PVs must be based on measurements reflecting PV emissions under natural conditions. However, PVs are usually sampled in the artificial environments of laboratories or climate chambers. Sampling of PVs in natural environments is difficult, being limited by the need to transport, maintain and provide power to instruments, or use expensive sorbent devices

SUBMITTER: Kallenbach M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4190661 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature