Nocturnal Bee Pollinators Are Attracted to Guarana Flowers by Their Scents

Floral scent is an important component of the trait repertoire flowering plants use to attract and manipulate pollinators. Despite recent advances during the last decades about the chemicals released by flowers, there is still a large gap in our understanding of chemical communication between flowering plants and their pollinators. We analyzed floral scents of guarana (Paullinia cupana, Sapindaceae), an economically important plant of the...