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Flower Aroma Is a Honeybee’s Chill Pill
http://www.livescience.com/53188-flower-aroma-calms-angry-bees.html by Christopher Wanjek Music has charms to soothe a savage breast. And, it seems, flowers can calm an aggressive honeybee. Scientists in France and Australia have found that angry honey bees are less likely to attack when exposed to certain … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Fragrance, In The Garden, Perfumery, Uncategorized, Under the Tree
Tagged fragrance, Garden, Plants, Scent, smell
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Underpinnings of drought tolerance in plants
Genome-wide analysis elucidates drought-tolerance system in Arabidopsis Date: June 11, 2015 Source: American Society of Plant Biologists Summary: Drought is one of the most urgent environmental crises facing the world today. Scientists have now used a genome-wide approach to studying … Continue reading
The truth about why things smell bad: Vibrating molecules
http://io9.com/5761442/the-truth-about-why-things-smell-bad-vibrating-molecules For over a century, our sense of smell has been explained with the “lock and key” hypothesis, which holds that each odor molecule has a particular shape that allows it to fit into particular smell receptors in the nose. … Continue reading
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Tagged fragrance, olfactory, Scent, smell
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Eucalypt Reveals Smelly Secret
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/03/05/3701485.htm?site=science&topic=latest Tuesday, 5 March 2013 Dani Cooper ABC Science Biologists have uncovered a yellowbox eucalyptus tree that is able to change the smell of its leaves from one side of the tree to the other to protect itself against predation. … Continue reading
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