Plant Volatile Emissions: From Constitutive to Stress-Induced
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 1985
Special Issue Editor
Interests: volatile organic compound emission; proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS); proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOF-MS); plant abiotic stress; plant biotic stress; gas-exchange chamber; photosynthesis
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants grown in natural conditions emit VOCs as a product of constitutive reactions. At the same time, many of the stressors that plants are subjected to trigger defensive mechanisms that eventually culminate in the emission of VOCs. In addition, oxygenated VOCs are typically emitted by already-damaged tissues. Therefore, the composition of the VOC blend emitted can be informative of the actual constitutive/defensive/senescing processes that a plant is experiencing. However, information is lacking on (1) the description of the original VOC blends of each physiological status and on (2) the breakpoints that trigger stress-induced VOC emissions. Understanding the effect of degree levels of stress and their correlation to VOC emissions would be very useful in predicting the tropospheric VOC concentrations under an ongoing climate change situation.
This Special Issue of Plants will highlight experimental articles that identify VOC emission blends from leaves and other plant organs with the plant's stress level (single and combined stressors). Research incorporating the use of increments in stress levels to find breakpoints, the use of high-end techniques monitoring temporal dynamics of emission (e.g., PTR-TOF-MS), and additional measurements such as chlorophyll content, photosynthesis, respiration, etc., is encouraged.
Dr. Miguel Portillo-Estrada
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- volatile organic compounds
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- breakpoint
- PTR-MS
- GC-MS
- SPME
