How Plants Fine Tune Their Natural Chemical Defenses
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 09:49
in Biology & Nature
Even closely related plants produce their own natural chemical cocktails, each set uniquely adapted to the individual plant's specific habitat. Comparing antifungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers have discovered that only a few mutations in a key enzyme are enough to shift the whole output to an entirely new product mixture.
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