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Genetic technology reveals how poisonous mushrooms cook up toxins

11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!

Scientists have identified genes that produce the poison of the death cap mushroom -- a unique pathway previously unknown in fungi.Reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work not only solves a mystery of how some mushrooms make the toxin -- but also sheds light on the underlying biochemical machinery. It might be possible one day to harness the mushroom genes to make novel chemicals that would be useful as new drugs.

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