Rinnan, Riikka and Steinke, Michael and McGenity, Terry and Loreto, Francesco (2014) Plant volatiles in extreme terrestrial and marine environments. Plant, Cell and Environment, 37 (8). pp. 1776-1789. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12320
Rinnan, Riikka and Steinke, Michael and McGenity, Terry and Loreto, Francesco (2014) Plant volatiles in extreme terrestrial and marine environments. Plant, Cell and Environment, 37 (8). pp. 1776-1789. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12320
Rinnan, Riikka and Steinke, Michael and McGenity, Terry and Loreto, Francesco (2014) Plant volatiles in extreme terrestrial and marine environments. Plant, Cell and Environment, 37 (8). pp. 1776-1789. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12320
Abstract
This review summarizes the current understanding on plant and algal volatile organic compound (VOC) production and emission in extreme environments, where temperature, water availability, salinity or other environmental factors pose stress on vegetation. Here, the extreme environments include terrestrial systems, such as arctic tundra, deserts, CO₂ springs and wetlands, and marine systems such as sea ice, tidal rock pools and hypersaline environments, with mangroves and salt marshes at the land-sea interface. The emission potentials at fixed temperature and light level or actual emission rates for phototrophs in extreme environments are frequently higher than for organisms from less stressful environments. For example, plants from the arctic tundra appear to have higher emission potentials for isoprenoids than temperate species, and hypersaline marine habitats contribute to global dimethyl sulphide (DMS) emissions in significant amounts. DMS emissions are more widespread than previously considered, for example, in salt marshes and some desert plants. The reason for widespread VOC, especially isoprenoid, emissions from different extreme environments deserves further attention, as these compounds may have important roles in stress resistance and adaptation to extremes. Climate warming is likely to significantly increase VOC emissions from extreme environments both by direct effects on VOC production and volatility, and indirectly by altering the composition of the vegetation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Plants; Pentanes; Butadienes; Hemiterpenes; Monoterpenes; Environment; Temperature; Climate; Desert Climate; Seawater; Light; Arctic Regions; Stress, Physiological; Volatile Organic Compounds |
Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2014 11:44 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:51 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/10351 |