Do you know how stressed-out plants produce their own aspirin? Study reveals

Jul 24, 2022

New Delhi, July 24 (ANI): Research revealed how plants produce their own aspirin and how it can help protect plants in extreme climatic conditions. Plants produce Salicylic acid popularly known as aspirin, to protect themselves against environmental dangers like insects, thirst and heat. A better understanding of this procedure could aid plants in surviving the increased stress brought in by extreme climatic conditions. The research team discovered that heat, unabated sunshine or drought cause the sugar-making apparatus in plant cells to generate an initial alarm molecule known as MEcPP.