Hyperbolic odorant mixtures as a basis for more efficient signaling between flowering plants and bees.

ABSTRACT: Animals use odors in many natural contexts, for example, for finding mates or food, or signaling danger. Most analyses of natural odors search for either the most meaningful components of a natural odor mixture, or they use linear metrics to analyze the mixture compositions. However, we have recently shown that the physical space for complex mixtures is 'hyperbolic', meaning that there are certain combinations of variables that have a disproportionately large impact on perception and that these variables have specific interpretations in terms of metabolic processes taking place inside the flower and fruit that produce the odors. Here we show that the statistics of odorants and odorant mixtures produced by inflorescences (Brassica rapa) are also better described with a hyperbolic rather tha

SUBMITTER: Ghaninia M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9278781 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature