Tagged: jasmonic acid

Two Reactions Start When the Leaf Is Bruised, Not One

Shaking bruises the leaf once, but it starts two separate reactions on two different substrates. One reddens the edge. The other, mapped only in the last few years, manufactures the floral scent.

In One Taiwanese Tea, the Bite Mark Is the Flavor

Oriental Beauty oolong is made only from tea leaves a small leafhopper has already bitten. The plant's response to that bite is now mapped to a single gene switch, and it is not the same chemistry a shaken, unbitten leaf ever produces.