Many thanks to...

Sigrid Liede-Schumann for her kind support and the opportunity to work at the Department of Plant Systematics

Gerhard Gottsberger and the members of the Department of Systematic Botany and Ecology at the University of Ulm for their support and cooperation through all the years

Stefan Schütz and Bernhard Weißbecker for their great cooperation. They made it possible to run GC-FID/EAG and GC-MS/EAG detections

Konrad Fiedler for his essential advice on statistical analyses and for many helpful discussions on methodology

Robert Raguso for lots of stimulating discussions and inspiring ideas

Jette Knudsen for instructive discussions during her stay in Bayreuth. Furthermore she kindly sent authentic standards, and together with Stefan Pettersson she helped to identify unknown compounds 

Roman Kaiser and Manfred Kaib who made authentic standards available. Furthermore Roman Kaiser helped to identify unknown compounds

Karlheinz Seifert and Thorsten Laube who kindly synthesised with large effort the lilac aldehyde standards.

Martin Geier and Andreas Rose from the University of Regensburg (BioGents) for their kind support within the mosquito project.

Lorne Wolfe who provided seeds of different populations of S. latifolia. We could not answer a lot of interesting questions without his great support.

Armin Mosandl and Dirk Burkhard for their enthusiasm to investigate lilac alehyde isomers

Alex Widmer and Birgit Piechulla for interesting discussions on floral scent evolution and synthesis

Paul Kennedy for lots of discussions on methods and on literature and his enthusiasm to collect so many interesting odor samples.

_{Andreas Jürgens}