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  • Despite the importance of indole in plant defense and communication, its biosynthesis in core eudicots remains elusive. Here the authors report the identification of TSB-like, a pseudoenzyme that hijacks an enzyme of tryptophan biosynthesis to produce indole.

    • Matilde Florean
    • Hedwig Schultz
    • Tobias G. Köllner
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 22, P: 120-127

  • Neural architecture may be shaped by selection, but is likely also constrained by development. Here, Keesey and colleagues find an inverse relationship between allocation towards visual and olfactory sensory systems across the genus Drosophila, which may reflect a developmental trade-off.

    • Ian W. Keesey
    • Veit Grabe
    • Bill S. Hansson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-16

  • Certain plants in the nightshade family contain withanolides, defensive chemicals known to be harmful to most insect herbivores. Here, Barthel et al. show that a moth species that is a specialist herbivore of these plants benefits from the compounds by gaining increased immunity to a pathogen.

    • Andrea Barthel
    • Heiko Vogel
    • Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-11