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Floral micromorphology and transcriptome analyses of a fragrant Vandaceous Orchid, Vanda Mimi Palmer, for its fragrance production sites

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, November 2017
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Title
Floral micromorphology and transcriptome analyses of a fragrant Vandaceous Orchid, Vanda Mimi Palmer, for its fragrance production sites
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BMC Research Notes, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-2872-6
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Conie Toh, Ab. Rahim Mohd-Hairul, Nooraini Mohd. Ain, Parameswari Namasivayam, Rusea Go, Nur Ashikin Psyquay Abdullah, Meilina Ong Abdullah, Janna Ong Abdullah

Abstract

Vanda Mimi Palmer (VMP) is commercially valuable for its strong fragrance but little is known regarding the fragrance production and emission sites on the flowers. Olfactory perception detected fragrance only from the petals and sepals. Light and Environmental Scanning Electron microscopy analyses on fresh tissues showed distributions of stomata and trichomes concentrated mostly around the edges. These results paralleled the rich starch deposits and intense neutral red stain, indicating strong fragrance and trichomes as potential main fragrance release sites. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) transcriptomic data of adaxial and abaxial layers of the tissues showed monoterpene synthase transcripts specifically linalool and ocimene synthases distributed throughout the tissues. qPCR analyses taken at different time points revealed high levels of linalool and ocimene synthases transcripts in the early morning with maximal level at 4.00 am but remained low throughout daylight hours. Knowledge of the VMP floral anatomy and its fragrance production characteristics, which complemented our previous molecular and biochemical data on VMP, provided additional knowledge on how fragrance and flower morphology are closely intertwined. Further investigation on the mechanisms of fragrance biosynthesis and interaction of potential pollinators would elucidate the evolution of the flower morphology to maximize the reproduction success of this plant.

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Unknown 29 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 21%
Student > Master 5 17%
Researcher 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Lecturer 1 3%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 8 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 38%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 9 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 April 2022.
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#6,352,919
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#966
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#105,180
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#24
of 149 outputs
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