EssOilDB: a database of essential oils reflecting terpene composition and variability in the plant kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Plant essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds, which play indispensable roles in the environment, for the plant itself, as well as for humans. The potential biological information stored in essential oil composition data can provide an insight into the silent language of plants, and the roles of these chemical emissions in defense, communication and pollinator attraction. In order to decipher volatile profile patterns from a global perspective, we have developed the ESSential OIL DataBase (EssOilDB), a continually updated, freely available electronic database designed to provide knowledge resource for plant essential oils, that enables one to address a multitude of queries on volatile profiles of native, invasive, normal or stressed plants, across taxonomic clades

SUBMITTER: Kumari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4273207 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature