Morgan Pugh: Zucchinis, VOC's, and Carbon Filters

Hi! Welcome back to Fuming. Today I am so excited to announce that I will be interviewing my first guest - a real biologist! - Morgan Pugh. In this episode we cover how Volatile Organic Compounds released by plants are the same as Volatile Organic Compounds released by paint fumes.

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If you are interested in any of the scholarly journals, scientific articles, or parasite videos that Morgan mentions, I'll leave them here:

Catola, S., Centritto, M., Cascone, P., Ranieri, A., Loreto, F., Calamai, L., Balestrini, R., & Guerrieri, E. (2018). Effects of single or combined water deficit and aphid attack on tomato volatile organic compound (VOC) emission and plant-plant communication. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 153, 54–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2018.05.001

Fini, A., Brunetti, C., Loreto, F., Centritto, M., Ferrini, F., & Tattini, M. (2017). Isoprene responses and functions in plants challenged by environmental pressures associated to climate change. In Frontiers in Plant Science (Vol. 8, p. 1281). Frontiers Media S.A. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01281

Vivaldo, G., Masi, E., Taiti, C., Caldarelli, G., & Mancuso, S. (n.d.). The network of plants volatile organic compounds OPEN. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-10975-x

https://www.ccacoalition.org/en/slcps/tropospheric-ozone

Parasitoid wasp: https://youtu.be/Bc69LLLEQRk