Biodiversity is adversely affected by the growing levels of synthetic chemicals released into
the environment due to agricultural activities. This has been the driving force for embracing …

Plants encounter various abiotic stresses under field conditions. Among them, drought stress
adversely affects crop productivity and threatens global food security. Drought stress triggers …

Volatile organic compounds are important mediators of mutualistic interactions between
plants and their physical and biological surroundings. Volatiles rapidly indicate competition …

Plant volatile organic compounds are the most abundant and structurally diverse plant
secondary metabolites. They play a key role in plant lifespan via direct and indirect plant …

The occurrence of hot drought, ie low water availability and simultaneous high air
temperature, represents a severe threat to ecosystems. Here, we investigated how the 2018 …

Background Plants grow in multi-species communities rather than monocultures. Yet most
studies on the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from plants in response to …

By definition fire prone ecosystems have highly combustible plants, leading to the
hypothesis, first formally stated by Mutch in 1970, that community flammability is the product …

The effect of drought on the interplay of processes controlling carbon partitioning into plant
primary and secondary metabolisms, such as respiratory CO2 release and volatile organic …

Trees play an important role for the improvement of environmental quality in urban areas.
The improvement of microclimate, runoff mitigation, carbon storage and sequestration, noise …

Rosmarinus officinalis is an evergreen aromatic plant with important commercial interest as
it contains numerous essential oils (composed of terpenoid compounds) and phenolic …