August 10, 2015
Professor Morgan Helps Determine Biology, Not Just Physics, Controls Release of Scent Compounds from Plants
Research completed by a team of Purdue researchers, including Professor John Morgan and ChE graduate student Rohit Jaini, suggests active biological mechanisms transport scent and taste compounds known as volatiles from plant cells to the atmosphere, a finding that could overturn the textbook model of volatile emission as a process that occurs solely by diffusion.