plants produce an enormous and
largely unknown array of
secondary chemicals to combat herbivores
these chemicals are the basis of a growing
pharmaceutical industry
cyanide, caffeine, cocaine, mescaline,
curare, nicotine, atropine, strychnine,
morphine, quinine, codeine, digitalis,
and many, many, more�..
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