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Who’s Listening to Talking Plants?

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Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication

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Abstract

In the last few decades, incredible advances have been made in characterising the nature, the origin and the function of plant volatile compounds. These molecules/blends regulate important functions of plant life linked to primary and secondary metabolism. In this chapter, I will focus on the role of these compounds in plant defence against insects (direct and indirect) as determined by constitutive or induced release. I will indicate the possible targets of volatile compounds that become signals in plant–plant and plant–insect communication. I will then conclude with a possible scenario for the exploitation of plant volatiles as a sustainable tool in plant protection against agricultural pests, along with gaps in current knowledge that hamper wider application in the field.

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Guerrieri, E. (2016). Who’s Listening to Talking Plants?. In: Blande, J., Glinwood, R. (eds) Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33498-1_5

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