Compared to beautiful flowers or delicious fruits, a plant’s cuticle – the layered structure that controls the movement of waxes to the surface of leaves and petals – sounds boring.

“Cuticle thickness affects dynamics of volatile emission from ... VOCs can’t diffuse out of flower cells quickly enough to prevent internal damage to the plant. In follow-up experiments to find out ...

This discovery challenges long-held assumptions about how plants function. While scientists believed that leaf pores were the primary source of water loss, it appears that the cuticle, a waxy layer, ...