Emissionandutilizationofmethanolinhigherplants.docVIP

Emission and utilization of methanol in higher plants YANG Yueqin, YI Xianfeng* College of Agriculture, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China Abstract: Methanol, as one of the major volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in the atmosphere, has been proved to be emitted from leaves of most plant species. The formation, emission and metabolism of methanol in higher plants were reviewed in this paper. Photosynthetic processes and chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters were measured on peony leaves treated with different methanol concentrations. The primary results re