MSU discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 08:42
in Biology & Nature
EAST LANSING, Mich. ? 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.