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Beetle-borne fungi disarm spruce toxins by capping the fragments with ribose
Chemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology report in The ISME Journal that two fungi carried into spruce bark by beetles attach the sugar ribose to degraded defense compounds, leaving them stable and harmless.
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