Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Blande, James D.; Glinwood, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 begins with 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319334981
• Artikelnr.: 46925578

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Plant Volatiles - complexity of chemicalmessages.- 1. Temporal dynamics ofplant volatiles: mechanistic bases and functional consequences.- 2. Environmental impactson plant volatile emission.- 3. Impacts of inductionof plant volatiles by individual and multiple stressors across multiple trophiclevels.- 4. Measuring rapidchanges in plant volatiles at different spatial levels.- Section 2: Ecology ofvolatile mediated communication processes.- 5. Who's listening totalking plants?.- 6. Ecological role of odourdiversity.- 7. Neighbour recognitionthrough volatile-mediated interactions.- 8. Calling in the dark:The role of volatiles for communication in the rhizosphere.- 9. Complexity of plantvolatile-mediated interactions beyond the third trophic level.- 10. On the air:Broadcasting and reception of volatile messages in brood-site pollinationmutualisms.- 11. Multifunctional anddiverse floral scents mediate biotic interactions embedded in communities.- Section 3: Mechanismsof volatile detection by plants.- 12. Plantelectrophysiology - early stages of the plant response to chemical signals.- 13. Uptake and conversionof volatile compounds in plant-plant communication.- Section 4 : Synthesis and futuredirections.- 14. Synthesis and futuredirections for deciphering plant chemical language.