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TALKING TREES. "Plants can’t talk or make noise, but they can communicate with one another, and we’re learning more about how they do it all the time." https://lnkd.in/emhsDjP View in LinkedIn

SMELL AND MORE SMELLY. This remarkable review of the chemistry of smells gives you a sense of how sophisticated food science has become, with every subtle scent known to a deep level. https://lnkd.in/emSBr8y View in LinkedIn

RETHINKING PLANTS. "Who knew that a weed can smell the difference between a tomato plant and wheat, a tobacco plant can sense color, and a Venus flytrap can distinguish between the splash of a raindrop and a fly? Like so much in nature, it’s a matter of survival."" " https://lnkd.in/ea_Tqa3" " View in LinkedIn

350 IMPORTANT AROMAS. "The results of dilution analyses and of aroma simulation experiments show that only 5% of the more than 7,000 volatile compounds identified in foods contribute to aromas. The main reason for the low number of odorants in the volatile fraction is the marked specificity of the sense of smell." https://lnkd.in/emSBr8y View in LinkedIn

'WHAT A PLANT KNOWS', by Daniel Chemovitz. "Plants know when their fruit is ripe, when their plant neighbor has been cut by gardener's shears, or when their neighbor is being eaten by a ravenous bug; they smell it." https://lnkd.in/ebihGuY View in LinkedIn

LIMIT OF DETECTION. One furanone diasteriomer (maltols: coffee, butter, chocolate, beer) has a threshold of 0.00001 Ng/L of air. https://lnkd.in/emSBr8y View in LinkedIn

PLANT OLFACTION. We are just now starting to appreciate the pathways of plant odor detection, and how they communicate with so many species through scents and volatile molecules, to other plant species, and to pollinators and even to the enemies of their predators. View in LinkedIn

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