Floral volatiles have attracted humans' attention since antiquity and have since then
permeated many aspects of our lives. Indeed, they are heavily used in perfumes, cosmetics …

Volatile compounds act as a language that plants use for their communication and
interaction with the surrounding environment. To date, a total of 1700 volatile compounds …

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

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Plants synthesize and emit a large variety of volatile organic compounds with terpenoids
and fatty-acid derivatives the dominant classes. Whereas some volatiles are probably …

Plants have a penchant for perfuming the atmosphere around them. Since antiquity it has
been known that both floral and vegetative parts of many species emit substances with …

There is growing recognition that many phenolic secondary metabolites present in foodstuffs
may possibly exert beneficial effects on human health. This may to some degree be …

Acylation is a common and biochemically significant modification of plant secondary
metabolites. Plant BAHD acyltransferases constitute a large family of acyl CoA-utilizing …

Nectar properties tend to be similar for plants visited by the same kinds of pollinators, and
much of the available information on nectar chemistry has been collected in the context of …

The chemical composition of floral scents has been extensively investigated for hundreds of
years because of the commercial value of floral volatiles in perfumery. More recently, several …