MSU discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 06:42 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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