Floral volatiles have attracted humans' attention since antiquity and have since then
permeated many aspects of our lives. Indeed, they are heavily used in perfumes, cosmetics …

Volatile compounds act as a language that plants use for their communication and
interaction with the surrounding environment. To date, a total of 1700 volatile compounds …

A list of 1719 chemical compounds identified from headspace samples of floral scent is
presented. The list has been compiled from some 270 published papers, including analyses …

Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) produced by plants are involved in plant
growth, reproduction and defense. They are emitted from vegetation into the atmosphere …

The terpenoids constitute the largest family of natural products; over 22,000 individual
compounds of this class have been described (Connolly and Hill, 1991), and the number of …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 643–656 Abstract Plants have evolved a range of strategies to
manipulate the behaviour of their insect partners. One powerful strategy is to produce …

This review discusses the occurrence and distribution (within a plant) of methyl eugenol in
different plant species (> 450) from 80 families spanning many plant orders, as well as …

2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a
Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From medicinal, industrial, and …

The chemical composition of floral scents has been extensively investigated for hundreds of
years because of the commercial value of floral volatiles in perfumery. More recently, several …

Ocimum species represent commercially important medicinal and aromatic plants. The
essential oil biosynthesized by Ocimum species is enriched with specialized metabolites …