{"id":291938,"date":"2019-07-15T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=291938"},"modified":"2019-07-15T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:47:37","slug":"the-origin-of-the-mango-flowers-sweet-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-origin-of-the-mango-flowers-sweet-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"The origin of the mango flower\u2019s sweet smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are almost 800 species in the <em>anacardiaceae<\/em> family, which is common in tropical regions. As well as producing nectar as a reward for pollinators, its flowers also have another more rare feature\u2014they release an odor to help guide animals to their pollen. Botanists Elisabeth T\u00f6lke and Sandra Guerreiro, from the University of Campinas, and Diego Demarco, from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, had already observed that the cashew, mango, and <em>cajuzinho-do-campo<\/em> flowers give off a sweet aroma. Now, using microscopic techniques, they have discovered that in the mango and <em>cajuzinho-do-campo<\/em> flowers, the scent glands are located at the inner base of the petals. The former produces 21 volatile compounds, and the second produces 39 (<em>ABO Plants<\/em>, December 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the mango and <em>cajuzinho-do-campo<\/em> flowers, the scent glands are located at the inner base of the petals","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,213],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-291938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-botany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291944,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291938\/revisions\/291944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291938"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=291938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}