This unexpected plant discovery could change how drugs are made

ScienceDaily
Feb 3, 2026, 10:06 am13 pts
Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that looks surprisingly bacterial. This suggests plants reuse microbial tools to invent new chemistry. The insight…

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