Plant Volatilome Resources

Title:Plant Volatilome Resources

Volume: 4 Issue: 2

Author(s): Biswapriya B. Misra

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Keywords: Volatiles, plant, VOC, database, annotation, SPME, GC-MS.

Abstract: Background: In the current –omics era plant volatilome has enormous potential in enhancing our understanding of plant growth, defense, and productivity.

Focus: Plant volatiles pose enormous challenges in their identification and functional assignment due their chemical complexities and associated analytical challenges.

Prospects: However, there have been efforts to develop databases, softwares, and webservers to allow accurate identification of these volatiles. In this highlight, I summarize the past and current efforts in such endeavors.

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B. Misra Biswapriya, Plant Volatilome Resources, Current Metabolomics 2016; 4 (2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2213235X04666160317000919