Meet the Molecules; Geosmin
The smell of the soil was first investigated in 1891 but the main compound that caused it was not isolated until 1965 by Gerber and Lechevalier, who named it “geosmin”
Read the storyThe smell of the soil was first investigated in 1891 but the main compound that caused it was not isolated until 1965 by Gerber and Lechevalier, who named it “geosmin”
Read the storyThis blog was originally published on Erica's blog; Scientist Erica and has been reproduced here with her consent.
Read the storyIn 1967 the John Innes Institute, as it was then known upped sticks and moved from Bayfordbury in Hertfordshire to Norwich.
Read the storyIn February 2017, Professor George Lomonossoff and Dr Ian Gibson revived a hundred-year relationship between the John Innes Centre and St Petersburg, Russia.
Read the storyArabidopsis’ story continues (catch up on part 1 and part 2) and the weed now forms the foundation of thousands of studies around the world, including at the John Innes Centre.
Read the storyIt would be easy to assume that with the characteristics laid out in part 1 of this blog, that Arabidopsis was always an obvious choice as a model organism, however its story is as tangled and complex as the bed of weeds it was plucked from.
Read the storyDepending on the type of person you are, if someone described you as having “no particular virtues or uses” it may make you pretty determined to prove that person wrong and become unequivocally useful.
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