Author(s): Jardine K
Site ID: BR-Ma2
Site Name: Manaus - ZF2 K34
Variables: Other
Date Range: March 4, 2019 - July 20, 2019
Description: Volatile terpenoid resins represent a diverse group of plant defense chemicals involved in defense against herbivory, abiotic stress, and communication. However, their composition in tropical forests remains poorly characterized. As a part of tree identification, the ‘smell’ of damaged trunks is widely used, but is highly subjective. Here, we analyzed trunk volatile monoterpene emissions from 15 species of the genus Protiumin in Manaus, Brazil. Included in this data package are volatile monoterpene compositions of tree trunk resins from 77 individuals. We hypothesized that by normalizing the abundances of 28 monoterpenes in each individual, a unique Protium monoterpene ‘fingerprint’ pattern exists for each of the 15 species. This data package contains data used in the publication, "Volatile monoterpene ‘fingerprints’ of resinous Protium tree species in the Amazon rainforest." A full citation is available in the below field, "Dataset References."
QA/QC: Full QA-QC
Methods Description: See the related publication for data collection methods. After collection, each monoterpene peak was manually integrated into every GC-MS chromatogram.
Access Level: Public
Originating Institution(s): Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA)
Sponsor Organization(s): None
Contact: Jardine, Kolby - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (kjjardine@lbl.gov)
Version: 1.0
Dataset Citation: Jardine K (2021): Volatile monoterpene ‘fingerprints’ of resinous Protium tree species in the Amazon rainforest, Phytochemistry: Data. 1.0. NGEE Tropics Data Collection. (dataset). http://dx.doi.org/10.15486/ngt/1570410
Acknowledgement: This material is based upon work supported as part of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics (NGEE-Tropics) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research through contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 to LBNL, as part of DOE's Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program.
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Luani R.de O. Piva, Kolby J. Jardine, Bruno O. Gimenez, Ricardo de Oliveira Perdiz, Valdiek S. Menezes, Flávia M. Durgante, Leticia O. Cobello, Niro Higuchi, Jeffrey Q. Chambers,Volatile monoterpene ‘fingerprints’ of resinous Protium tree species in the Amazon rainforest, Phytochemistry, Volume 160, 2019, Pages 61-70, ISSN 0031-9422, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2019.01.014.
