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Abstract
Plant volatiles are the metabolites that plants release into the air. The quantities released are not trivial. Almost one-fifth of the atmospheric CO2 fixed by land plants is released back into the air each day as volatiles. Plants are champion synthetic chemists; they take advantage of their anabolic prowess to produce volatiles, which they use to protect themselves against biotic and abiotic stresses and to provide information - and potentially disinformation - to mutualists and competitors alike. As transferors of information, volatiles have provided plants with solutions to the challenges associated with being rooted in the ground and immobile. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 20462477 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2010.02.052
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834