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EssOilDB: A database of essential oils reflecting terpene composition and variability in the plant kingdom

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Title EssOilDB: A database of essential oils reflecting terpene composition and variability in the plant kingdom
 
Creator Kumari, Sangita
Pundhir, Sachin
Priya, Piyush
Jeena, Ganga
Punetha, Ankita
Chawla, Konika
Jafaree, Zohra Firdos
Mondal, Subhasish
Yadav, Gitanjali
 
Subject ESSential OIL DataBase
 
Description Accepted date: 30 November 2014
Plant essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds, which play indispensable roles in the environment, for the plant itself, as well as for humans. The potential biological information stored in essential oil composition data can provide an insight into the silent language of plants, and the roles of these chemical emissions in defense, communication and pollinator attraction. In order to decipher volatile profile patterns from a global perspective, we have developed the ESSential OIL DataBase (EssOilDB), a continually updated, freely available electronic database designed to provide knowledge resource for plant essential oils, that enables one to address a multitude of queries on volatile profiles of native, invasive, normal or stressed plants, across taxonomic clades, geographical locations and several other biotic and abiotic influences. To our knowledge, EssOilDB is the only database in the public domain providing an opportunity for context based scientific research on volatile patterns in plants. EssOilDB presently contains 123 041 essential oil records spanning a century of published reports on volatile profiles, with data from 92 plant taxonomic families, spread across diverse geographical locations all over the globe. We hope that this huge repository of VOCs will facilitate unraveling of the true significance of volatiles in plants, along with creating potential avenues for industrial applications of essential oils. We also illustrate the use of this database in terpene biology and show how EssOilDB can be used to complement data from computational genomics to gain insights into the diversity and variability of terpenoids in the plant kingdom. EssOilDB would serve as a valuable information resource, for students and researchers in plant biology, in the design and discovery of new odor profiles, as well as for entrepreneurs--the potential for generating consumer specific scents being one of the most attractive and interesting topics in the cosmetic industry. Database URL: http://nipgr.res.in/Essoildb/
S.P., G.J., A.P., S.M. and K.C. were supported by the Biotechnology
Information System Network (BTISNET) program of Dept of
Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India, (Grant No. BT/BI/04/069/2006),
for the duration of this work. Funding for open access charge: NIPGR.
 
Date 2015-12-17T09:34:49Z
2015-12-17T09:34:49Z
2014
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Database, 2014: bau120
1758-0463
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/428
http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2014/bau120.long
10.1093/database/bau120
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Oxford University Press