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Floral volatiles
Benzyl acetone
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Nicotiana attenuata.
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Sylvestris
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Abstract:
The emission of a single compound, benzyl acetone (BA, 4-phenyl-2-butanone), is barely detectable during the day in the headspace of flowers of the self-compatible disturbance species Nicotiana attenuata, but it increases dramatically (50 x) in the even