Plants synthesize an amazing diversity of volatile organic compounds (VOC s) that facilitate
interactions with their environment, from attracting pollinators and seed dispersers to …

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 …

Floral scent constitutes an ancient and important channel of communication between
flowering plants, their pollinators, and enemies. Fragrance is a highly complex component of …

Bees and angiosperms have shared a long and intertwined evolutionary history and their
interactions have resulted in remarkable adaptations. Yet, at a time when the “pollination …

The plant family Caryophyllaceae, commonly known as the pink family, is divided into 3
subfamilies and contains over 80 genera with more than 2600 species that are widely …

Fragrance is a putatively important character in the evolution of flowering plants, but natural
selection on scent is rarely studied and thus poorly understood. We characterized floral …

Plants produce and emit a large variety of volatile organic compounds that play key roles in
interactions with abiotic and biotic environments. One of these roles is the attraction of …

Flowers are complex structures, synchronously displaying both olfactory and visual
signals/cues in the context of a particular floral morphology, that also vary in resource …

Mutualisms are interspecies interactions in which each participant gains net benefits from
interacting with its partner. In nursery pollination mutualisms, pollinators reproduce within …

Since the 1970s it has been known that the nursery pollinator Hadena bicruris is attracted to
the flowers of its most important host plant, Silene latifolia, by their scent. Here we identified …