Plants have long been valued for producing some of the most powerful molecules in medicine: morphine for pain, quinine for malaria, vincristine for cancer chemotherapy, and caffeine as the world’s favorite stimulant. All of these belong to the alkaloids, a vast family of nitrogen-containing compounds that plants synthesize primarily to defend themselves against herbivores and […]
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