Headspace (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Headspace

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Traces of the defensive volatile trans-α-bergamotene (TAB) are trapped in the headspace of a plant. Even if only one single plant produces this odor, this has an effect on all neighboring plants.

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Meredith Schuman, MPI Chem. Ecol. / <i>eLife</i>

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