Prof Alexander Weinstein, an expert on botanic genetics, has reported a major breakthrough pertaining to the scent of flowers.
 
Weinstein, who is affiliated with Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, credits the determination of his students and researchers, who seem to have successfully found the gene responsible for the scent in plants and flowers. He explained the significance of this discovery is far greater than one might first imagine.
 
For one thing, scientists may now control the potency of the scent of a particular flower. A flower giving ten times the scent will result in increased pollination, thereby speeding up and increasing the entire reproduction cycle. Interestingly he reports, his staff has also observed to see if the increase in scent has an adverse impact on the shelf life of flowers, and fortunately, this is not the case and the genetic engineering that has brought longer-lasting flowers is not compromised by the increased scent.
 
Some of the firms working with the professor and his staff are perfume companies, who see this as a way to produce natural scented perfumes as a significantly lower price, as well as firms extracting plant oils and other genetic engineering projects.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)