New discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 10:14 in Biology & Nature

Michigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato leaves their distinctive smell, in a way that flies in the face of accepted thought.

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