Biology of Floral Scent

Description

As with nearly all living creatures, humans have always been attracted and intrigued by floral scents. Yet, while we have been manufacturing perfumes for at least 5000 years to serve a myriad of religious, sexual, and medicinal purposes, until very recently, the limitation of our olfactory faculty has greatly hindered our capacity to clearly and objectively measure scent. Today, thanks to advances in practical methodologies and affordable instrumentation, we are now able to collect, separate, and identify volatile compounds with aromatic impact. These advances are leading to much intensive inv.;Front Cover; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Contents; 1. Detection and Identification of Floral Scent Compounds; 2. The Chemical Diversity of Floral Scent; 3. Floral Scent Metabolic Pathways: Their Regulation and Evolution; 4. Biosynthesis of Volatile Terpenes in the Flowers of the Model Plant Arabidopsis thaliana; 5. An Integrated Genomics Approach to Identifying Floral Scent Genes in Rose; 6. Localization of the Synthesis and Emission of Scent Compounds within the Flower; 7. Examination of the Processes Involved in the Emission of Scent Volatiles from Flowers. Front Cover Preface Editors Contributors Contents 1. Detection and Identification of Floral Scent Compounds 2. The Chemical Diversity of Floral Scent 3. Floral Scent Metabolic Pathways: Their Regulation and Evolution 4. Biosynthesis of Volatile Terpenes in the Flowers of the Model Plant Arabidopsis thaliana 5. An Integrated Genomics Approach to Identifying Floral Scent Genes in Rose 6. Localization of the Synthesis and Emission of Scent Compounds within the Flower 7. Examination of the Processes Involved in the Emission of Scent Volatiles from Flowers.