Monday, 14 January 2019

Tomato "perfume" could protect crops from drought and bacteria

You may not know it, but tomatoes are a good source of hexenyl butyrate

Tomatoes are certainly hardy plants – this is partly due to a compound which they emit, known as hexenyl butyrate (HB). Spanish scientists have now found that a spray of synthetic HB helps various crop plants to withstand both drought and bacterial infections.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2VVlqQX
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