Plants emit complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds from floral and vegetative
tissue, especially after herbivore damage, so it is difficult to associate individual compounds …

Sesquiterpenoids constitute the largest subgroup of terpenoids that have numerous
applications in pharmaceutical, flavor, and fragrance industries as well as biofuels …

Fragrance is a putatively important character in the evolution of flowering plants, but natural
selection on scent is rarely studied and thus poorly understood. We characterized floral …

After herbivory, plants release volatile organic compounds from damaged foliage as well as
from nearby undamaged leaves that attract herbivore enemies. Little is known about what …

Background The selection of suitable host plants for oviposition is critical for herbivorous
insects to maximise survival of their offspring. Olfaction plays an important role in this …

Flowers are complex structures, synchronously displaying both olfactory and visual
signals/cues in the context of a particular floral morphology, that also vary in resource …

The epiphytic bacterial communities colonising roots and leaves have been described for
many plant species. In contrast, microbiologists have rarely considered flowers of naturally …

Eukaryote-associated microbiomes interact with their hosts in multiple manners, thereby
affecting the hosts' phenotype, physical condition and behaviour. In plants, bacteria have …

BACKGROUND Biological control plays a key role in reducing crop damage by Tuta
absoluta (Meyrick) and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), which cause huge yield …

A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how complex traits of multiple
functions have diversified and codiversified across interacting lineages and geographic …