Aug 31
New Research Sheds Light on How Opium Poppies Evolved Their Powerful Painkillers
Posted in: Today's Chili
The opium poppy is famous for its ability to produce painkilling molecules. Now, by sequencing its genome, a team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom and Australia uncovered several events in the poppy’s history that, together, could have led to the evolution of its opium-producing behavior.
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