Emission Of Volatile Carbonyl Compounds By Living Plants
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Free (open access)
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Volume
36
Pages
4
Published
1999
Size
301 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/EURO990172
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
V. Isidorov, J. Jaroszynska, J. Sacharewicz and J. Dzierno
Abstract
Emission of Volatile Carbonyl Compounds by Living Plants Guest contribution V. Isidorov, J. Jaroszynska, J. Sacharewicz and J Dzierno Institute of Chemistry, University in Bialystok, 15-443 Bialystok, Poland The contribution of continental vegetation to organic carbon emission into the Earth's atmosphere is generally known. At present numerous global, regional, and national inventories of phytogenic non-methane hydrocarbon emissions are available. However, living plants also emit many oxygen-containing volatile organic compounds (OVOCs) including aldehydes and ketones (Isidorov et al, 1985; Isidorov, 1992; Steinbrecher, 1994). In contrast to isoprene and terpenes, virtually no OVOC emission has been characterised from the standpoint of its dependence on environmental conditions: temperature, illumination, air humidity, etc. Without this information it is not possible to evaluate the scale of emission
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