Electronic sniffer dog: Detectors sniff out different plants
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GIT Labor Fachzeitschrift
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GIT Labor-Fachzeitschrift 7 – 8/2022, S. 6 – 7, Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim
- Date: 2022
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A warm summer's day, a breath of sea air, a rainy autumn day - everything has its own smell. So does food that is very fresh or, unfortunately, already bad. Many people can rely on their nose to tell them whether they can still eat the food or not. But some people are denied this because their sense of smell doesn't work quite as well. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe have now also succeeded in doing what a sniffer dog can easily do with different odours in the field of plant biology. Find out exactly how the sensors work and what role artificial intelligence plays here in the interview with Prof Dr Dr h.c. C. Wöll, Director of the Institute of Functional Interfaces.