Changing smell of plants announces fungus attack
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomato plants under attack from the Botrytis fungus give off an aromatic substance that can be measured in greenhouses. This is the result of research performed by Roel Jansen with which he obtained his doctoral degree at Wageningen University on Friday 9 October. Working within a team of scientists from Wageningen and Germany, Jansen has opened the door to a new way of preventing and managing disease and plague problems in greenhouse horticulture.