PTOOEY! Plant Poison Turns Seed-Eating Mouse into Seed Spitter

In Israel, a plant called sweet mignonette or taily weed uses a "mustard oil bomb" to make the spiny mouse spit out the plant's seeds when eating the fruit, thus turning a seed-eating rodent into a seed spreader that helps the plant reproduce, says a new study by Utah and Israeli scientists.

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