Ecology and Evolution of Floral Scent
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 20984
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecology and evolution of floral scent and plant–pollinator interactions
Interests: ecology; agriculture; plant-pollinator communication; chemical ecology; sensory systems of insects; pollination ecology; crop pollination; pollinator biology; climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Floral scent is a key communication channel in interactions between flowers and various other organisms, among them microorganisms, animals, and plants. It is involved in mutualistic (e.g., pollination) and antagonistic (e.g., herbivory) interactions, and thus, an important aspect in floral ecology, evolution, and plant diversification. In recent years, these fields of research have attracted the attention of increased numbers of organismic- and molecular-oriented researchers. They gave achieved major advances in our understanding of the identity and the biosynthesis of scent components, and on their importance in eliciting physiological and behavioral responses in plants’ interaction partners. Just recently, effects of evolutionary processes (e.g., selection) on floral scent emissions were reported. These achievements were possible due to methodological advances in chemical analytics, and in experimental, physiological, genetic, genomic, and statistical approaches. Ongoing developments in these methods will allow further advances in ecological and evolutionary research on floral scents. This Special Issue on “Ecology and Evolution of Floral Scent” in Plants welcomes Original Papers as well as Reviews on flower volatiles, specifically, but not exclusively on:
- Biosynthesis, emission, and diversity of floral scent
- Environmental and anthropogenic effects on floral scent emissions
- Genomic studies on floral scents
- Evolutionary patterns in scent emissions
- Sensing of floral scents by plants and other organisms
- Identification of bioactive compounds
- Organismic interactions mediated by floral scents
Prof. Dr. Stefan Dötterl
Dr. Guaraci Duran Cordeiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic effects on floral scents
- chemical communication
- floral evolution
- floral volatiles
- florivory
- herbivory
- microorganisms
- multitrophic interactions
- olfactory receptors
- plant physiology
- pollination
- scent genes
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