The Titan arum produces a smell like rotting flesh. Now botanists have analysed the chemicals and found that the smell changes over the two days that the plant flowers.
Tag - VOCs
Alun Salt
Less Is More When Plants Call for Aid
Scientists find that reducing fertilizer input to a field can help plants call for assistance when fighting off herbivores.
Can Trees Track the Air that You Breathe?
A new paper in PLOS One says trees outside your house can act as sentinels tracking the concentrations of potentially hazardous chemicals in your home's air.
Trade-off among different anti-herbivore defence strategies along altitudinal gradient
The type and intensity of plant–herbivore interactions are likely to be changed under climate change as a consequence of differential dispersal rates of plants and their herbivores. In a new study published in AoB...
AoBPLANTS
What happens to a leaf when we cut it off a plant?
This is not something that we necessarily ask ourselves as we tuck into a lovely green salad, but maybe we should! Plants cannot move so they need to be resilient against stresses. To protect themselves they switch on a...
Hilary Rogers
Light quality, volatile emissions and plant–plant interactions
Mimicking the proximity of neighbouring plants using a supplemental far-red light treatment on plants.
AJ Cann