biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Nìmec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 44:481-487, 2001 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1013797129428

The Complexity of Factors Driving Volatile Organic Compound Emissions by Plants

J. Peñuelas1, J. Llusià1
1 Unitat d'Ecofisiologia CSIC, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

The emissions of volatile organic compounds, VOC, from plants have strong relevance for plant physiology, plant ecology, and atmospheric chemistry. We report here on the current knowledge of the many internal (genetic and biochemical) and external (abiotic - temperature, light, water availability, wind, ozone, and biotic - animal, plant and microorganisms interactions) factors that control emission rates of different VOC by altering their synthesis, vapour pressure or diffusion to the atmosphere. The complex net of these factors, their interactions and the different responses of the different VOC produces the large qualitative and quantitative, spatial and temporal variability of emissions and the frequent deviations from current standard emission models. The need for a co-operative multidisciplinary multiscale research to disentangle this complex and important issue of plant VOC emissions is reminded.

Keywords: controlling factors; biogenic emissions; isoprene; terpenoids; VOC
Subjects: biogenic emissions, biotic and abiotic factors; emissions of volatile organic compounds, abiotic and biotic factors; ethylene emission by plants into atmosphere; isopren, biotic and abiotic factors; terpenoids, biotic and abiotic factors; volatile organic compound emissions, VOC

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