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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Ecol. 2015 Nov 6;41(12):1105–1117. doi: 10.1007/s10886-015-0646-y

Table 2.

Average (± SE) estimates of characteristics describing integrated amount and timing of total biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions from Populus tremula leaves upon different wounding treatments

Lightweight oxygenated compounds LOX pathway products
Benzenoids and jasmonates Induced isoprenoids
Pentenyl family Hexanal family Hexenal family
Integrated BVOC emission
(pmol mm-1 cut length) *
229±27 a 3.01±0.28 b 0.351±0.030 bc 280±29 a 0.038±0.004 c 0.118±0.009 c

Maximum emission rate
(pmol s-1 mm-1 cut length) *
1.160±0.100 a 0.020±0.001 b 0.003±0.000 c 1.563±0.153 a 0.002±0.000 c 0.003±0.000 c

Time of peak maximum (s) 166±38 a 167±42 a 210±60 b 184±35 ab 230±50 b 210±60 b
*

Leaf squeeze damage treatments excluded

For the integrated BVOC emission, emission rate was integrated for a period of 7 min after leaf damage. The compound families as defined in Table 1. Letters denote significant differences between BVOC families (Tukey's HSD test; P<0.001)