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Molecular Blueprint of Ipecacuanha Alkaloids Reveals Extraordinary Convergent Evolution in Distantly Related Medicinal Plants

The natural world is an expansive laboratory of chemical innovation, producing a staggering variety of compounds that plants use to navigate their environments, defend against predators, and communicate with neighboring species. Many of these natural products are highly specific, appearing only within narrow ancestral lineages or even restricted to a single species. However, every so […]

September 29, 2026