Plant Communication: Mediated by Individual or Blended VOCs?

Overview

Journal Plant Signal Behav

Specialty Biology

Date 2012 Feb 23

PMID 22353877

Citations 28

Authors

Hirokazu Ueda

Yukio Kikuta

Kazuhiko Matsuda

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Abstract

Plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as a means to warn other plants of impending danger. Nearby plants exposed to the induced VOCs prepare their own defense weapons in response. Accumulated data supports this assertion, yet much of the evidence has been obtained in laboratories under artificial conditions where, for example, a single VOC might be applied at a concentration that plants do not actually experience in nature. Experiments conducted outdoors suggest that communication occurs only within a limited distance from the damaged plants. Thus, the question remains as to whether VOCs work as a single component or a specific blend, and at which concentrations VOCs elicit insect and pathogen defenses in undamaged plants. We discuss these issues based on available literature and our recent work, and propose future directions in this field.

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