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2007-04-30 | permalink
A sweet smell - Israeli scientists enhance food with the scent of flowers
Prof. Alexander Vainstein is proud of his greenhouses. Located at the Hebrew University’s Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture in Rehovot, these greenhouses offer visitors both a delight to the senses, and a trip to a futuristic world where flowers emerge in different colors, with different scents, and a whole new genetic make-up designed to enhance and improve the flower stock. ”You’ll see types of flowers in our greenhouses that do not exist anywhere else in the world,” says Vainstein, the head of the institute, with satisfaction. ”People are stunned at what we are doing here. We have petunias, which traditionally don’t have a smell, giving off such a strong perfume that it overpowers you as you walk through the greenhouse doors.”
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2007-04-30 | permalink
A sweet smell - Israeli scientists enhance food with the scent of flowers
Prof. Alexander Vainstein is proud of his greenhouses. Located at the Hebrew University’s Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture in Rehovot, these greenhouses offer visitors both a delight to the senses, and a trip to a futuristic world where flowers emerge in different colors, with different scents, and a whole new genetic make-up designed to enhance and improve the flower stock. ”You’ll see types of flowers in our greenhouses that do not exist anywhere else in the world,” says Vainstein, the head of the institute, with satisfaction. ”People are stunned at what we are doing here. We have petunias, which traditionally don’t have a smell, giving off such a strong perfume that it overpowers you as you walk through the greenhouse doors.”
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