Introduction to a special feature issue – New insights into plant volatiles

Abstract

This article is an Editorial on the special feature issue ‘New insights into plant volatiles’, which is published in this issue and which includes the following articles: Ameye et al., pp. 666–683; Sharifi et al. pp. 684–691; Moreira et al., pp. 703–713; Pichersky & Raguso, pp. 692–702; Chen et al., pp. 714–725; Danner et al., pp. 726–738; Junker et al., pp. 739–749; Rering et al., pp. 750–759; Eberl et al., pp. 760–772; Fernández‐Martínez et al., pp. 773–784; Glenny et al., pp. 785–798 and Visakorpi et al., pp. 799–810.

An Update on the Function, Biosynthesis and Regulation of Floral Volatile Terpenoids

“…In addition, particular FVTs play key roles in the synergistic and antagonistic interactions among organisms and the environment [142]. For example, (E, E)-α-farnesene, enantiomers of β-ocimene and linalool are reported to influence multiple interactions between plants and other organisms during biological and abiotic trauma [103,104,133,143].…”

“…Three major mechanisms are generally thought to be responsible for the high structural diversity of terpenoids: (1) many TPSs utilize multiple substrates or convert one substrate into multiple products [3,87,184]; (2) single amino acid changes in a TPSs can lead to elementary changes in biosynthetic properties and thus, to the production of completely different mixtures of terpenoids [142]; (3) many modifying enzymes (e.g., oxidoreductases, isomerases, acylases, etc.) convert basic terpene skeletons into diverse products [142].…”