Volatile Organic Compounds Content / Volatile Organic Compounds Content for 51ԹϺ Davis en How Plants Sense Scent /blog/how-plants-sense-scents <p>Plants need to be able to communicate with themselves, for example sending signals from their leaves to their roots or flowers, so that they can coordinate growth and optimize resource use. They also need to communicate with other plants and organisms, which they achieve by releasing volatile organic compounds (VOCs), tiny molecules that are often associated with distinct smells. Scientists know a lot about how plants emit these odorous signals, however very little is known about how they receive and interpret them.</p> April 25, 2024 - 4:10pm Andy Fell /blog/how-plants-sense-scents More Than Meows: How Bacteria Help Cats Communicate /curiosity/news/more-meows-how-bacteria-help-cats-communicate <p><span><span><span>Many mammals, from domestic cats and dogs to giant pandas, use scent to communicate with each other. A new study from the University of California, Davis, shows how domestic cats send signals to each other using odors derived from families of bacteria living in their anal glands. The work was published Nov. 8 in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45997-1">Scientific Reports</a>. </span></span></span></p> November 15, 2023 - 10:15am Andy Fell /curiosity/news/more-meows-how-bacteria-help-cats-communicate Sexing Chicken Eggs by Scent /food/news/sexing-chicken-eggs-scent <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Fertilized chicken eggs can be sexed by “sniffing” volatile chemicals emitted through the shell, according to new work by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Sensit Ventures Inc., a startup company in Davis. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285726">The work is published May 22 in PLOS ONE</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> May 22, 2023 - 11:00am Andy Fell /food/news/sexing-chicken-eggs-scent Consumer, Industrial Products Overtake Transportation as Source of Urban Air Pollution /news/consumer-industrial-products-overtake-transportation-source-urban-air-pollution <p>Consumer products such as shampoo, cleaning products and paint now contribute as much to urban air pollution as tailpipe emissions from vehicles, according to <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/760">a new study</a> led by NOAA and including researchers at the University of California, Davis. The results are published Feb. 16 in the journal <em>Science</em>.</p> February 15, 2018 - 4:17pm Andy Fell /news/consumer-industrial-products-overtake-transportation-source-urban-air-pollution