
Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us
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The Role of Rucial in the Biology of Poison Ivy
The compound, like you already mentioned, Erin, that is found in all of these plants that causes us such distress is a ruciol. A ruciol is an amalgamation of organic compounds; it's a phenolic lipid compound. The different specific forms of ruciol that are found in different species of plant differ in their carbon side chains, which are called like catacombs.
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