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Life on earth has always responded to change — birds shift the timing of their migration, insect populations grow and shrink, plants evolve to deal with drought. But now, human-caused climate change is moving so quickly that only the fastest ecological responses are keeping up.

Plants of many species harbor a vast number of specialized metabolites — chemical substances that play a variety of roles in sustaining a plant and its offspring. Primary metabolites are essential for the plant’s basic survival and growth.