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Can You Make the Molecules in Tobacco at a Scale?
Anne Osborne is a group leader and professor of biology at the John Innes Center in Norwich. She says plants are very good at making exotic chemicals because they can't run away, so they have to defend themselves. We don't know what these molecules do in the soap bark tree, but they may well be protecting the tree against attack by pathogens,. especially in the bark.
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