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OLFACTION in mammals is quite well understood, anatomically, electrophysiologically, biochemically, and genetically. View in LinkedIn

INNER LIFE OF PLANTS. "Just because we don’t see plants moving doesn’t mean that there’s not a very rich and dynamic world going on inside the plant." https://lnkd.in/eVVBdJ5 View in LinkedIn

INNER LIFE OF PLANTS. "Plants are immobile. They need to see where their food is. They need to feel the weather, and they need to smell danger. And then they need to be able to integrate all of this very dynamic and changing information." https://lnkd.in/eVVBdJ5 View in LinkedIn

SENSUAL PLANTS. "People have to remember that plants are complex organisms, that live rich sensual lives...a plant can see, smell, and feel," and even has a memory. Daniel Chamovitz (director of the Manna Center for Plant Bioscience, Tel Aviv University, and author of What a Plant Knows), the modern champion of the very living plant. https://lnkd.in/eVVBdJ5 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE. More than ever, today, we have an enormous number of studies proving how sensate plants are, how sophisticated their survival strategies are, and how very different (and yet how similar) they are from us. No brain, no nerves, no eyes, yet they can do so much. View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE for the next few weekends will deal with the remarkably ability of plants to sense their environment through their equivalent of the sense of smell. View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY. "Due to the chirality of receptor molecules, the taste, odor, or drug activity of enantiomers can be very different." https://lnkd.in/eD3BZKr View in LinkedIn

SMELL AND CHIRALITY. "The two mirror-image forms of a chiral molecule may have very different smells, such as spearmint and the spice caraway, which tastes like cumin." These are carvone enantiomer molecules. https://lnkd.in/eqzkdcz View in LinkedIn

CHIRAL SMELLS. "One of the most important factors affecting both the intensity and the type of odor is the configuration of chiral centers in the molecule." https://lnkd.in/eMTZmZF View in LinkedIn

ALICE IN WONDERLAND. "In Wonderland, spearmint chewing gum, which gets its minty flavor from R-carvone, would taste like caraway seeds, which get their flavor from the mirror-image molecule, S-carvone." https://lnkd.in/ejqs2rT View in LinkedIn