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MIT: New Sensor Could Help Prevent Food Waste
March 19, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 19 [TNSscientificresearch] -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 18:

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- Monitoring the plant hormone ethylene could reveal when fruits and vegetables are about to spoil.

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As flowers bloom and fruits ripen, they emit a colorless, sweet-smelling gas called ethylene. MIT chemists have now created a tiny sensor that can detect this gas in concentrations as low as 15 . . .

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