When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion ...

Even here, however, the response is nuanced: A putrefying corpse encountered at some distance from the nest is ignored. Rats ...

While this was previously predicted by Schaller’s team, they also discovered the active enzymes that make putrescine—the ...

A new study on titan arum -- commonly known as the corpse flower for its smell like rotting flesh -- uncovers fundamental genetic pathways and biological mechanisms that produce heat and odorous ...

Recent studies indicate that the smell of decomposing bodies, specifically a chemical compound known as putrescine, can have a significant impact on us. Putrescine is an organic chemical compound ...

When a corpse flower blooms, the pinky-purple spathe unfolds from an enormous yellow spadix that can grow to 3.7 meters (12 ...

Researchers identified key genes and molecules responsible for the corpse flower’s notorious stench and heating during ...

In their paper published Nov. 4 in PNAS Nexus, the team of scientists led by G. Eric Schaller, professor of biological sciences, also identifies a new component of the corpse flower's odor—an organic ...

Many people get a throbbing headache after drinking red wine. Why, even though white wine or other alcoholic beverages do not ...

What came as a surprise, Schaller says, was the detection of elevated levels of another amino acid in tissues taken from the ...

The unusual odor of the titan arum, commonly called the corpse flower because its scent is reminiscent of rotting flesh, draws crowds of curious ...

Polyamines (PAs) are low-molecular-mass organic polycations derived from amino acids. Structurally, PAs are aliphatic chains containing two or more amine groups. In plants, the best studied PAs are ...