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Comment
. 2018 Nov;178(3):956-957.
doi: 10.1104/pp.18.01214.

Setting and Diffusing the Cyanide Bomb in Plant Defense

Trevor H Yeats  1
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Setting and Diffusing the Cyanide Bomb in Plant Defense

Trevor H Yeats. Plant Physiol. 2018 Nov.
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Figure 1.
Biosynthesis of the cyanogenic glycosides prunasin and amygdalin and their deployment as chemical defenses. The sugar gum pathway reported by Hansen et al. (2018) is shown in blue, and the almond pathway reported by Thodberg et al. (2018) is shown in green.
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