Floral Volatile Organic Compounds of Mitchella repens (Rubiaceae)
Aleel K Grennan, Kathleen C Murphy, Mary Fowler, Adam Bengtson, Jay Turner, Lucas Horan, Julia Fitzpatrick, Logan Desilets · 2024
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Description
Aleel Grennan and seven co-authors published this study in 2024. It profiles the scent of partridgeberry flowers, a creeping plant of eastern North American forests. The plant bears two flower forms, and seed forms only when pollen moves between them, so the scent that draws insects matters.
The team trapped the scent from living flowers and read its chemistry with two linked instruments. They found twenty-seven scent molecules, mostly monoterpenes, with four leading the mix. Both flower forms smelled much the same. Two leading scents faded as the flowers aged over five days. Insect visits followed the same curve, peaking on the first two days of bloom. The pattern suggests the scent peaks exactly when the flowers most need visitors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aleel K Grennan, Kathleen C Murphy, Mary Fowler, Adam Bengtson, Jay Turner, Lucas Horan, Julia Fitzpatrick, Logan Desilets |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |