Lomatia stores the ingredients for cyanide, somewhere in its flowers.
Tag - Cyanogenesis
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Cyanogenesis and tissue damage in rubber tree
Cyanogenesis can act as defence against herbivores and the amount of HCN generated per unit time is crucial in its role as a feeding deterent. Kadow et al. examine linamarase and hydroxynitrile lyase in rubber tree...
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