Coping Abiotic Stress with Plant Volatile Organic Chemicals (PVOCs): A Promising Approach - Crop Improvement: New Approaches and Modern Techniques - page 300

Plants produce a plethora of volatile compounds for both general and special-
ized functions (Ueda et al. 2012 ). The plant volatilome is defined as the complex
consortium of volatile organic compounds through different biosynthetic pathways
and produced by plants, constitutively and/or after induction, as a defense strategy
against biotic and abiotic stress (Maffei et al. 2007 ). An integrated approach will
greatly help our understanding about the metabolism, genomics and interactome of
the VOCs in plant's adaptation to environmental stresses.
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