💐Not all flowers are pleasant to the nose. The infamous titan arum heats up during flowering to produce a pungent blend of volatiles.
🧬What genes drive this process?
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Thomas Depaepe
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Smelly Plant: What Are They Feeding You? (PNAS Nexus) (Summary by Thomas Depaepe @thdpaepe.bsky.social ) https://plantae.org/smelly-plant-what-are-they-feeding-you/
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While flowers are typically associated with pleasant fragrances, every few years a certain part of the rainforests of Sumatra is filled with the pungent odor of rotting flesh. This smell emanates…