While all plants used one pathway, known as ADH, to make tyrosine, the legume family -- peas, beans, peanuts -- uniquely added a second, called PDH, which was otherwise found only in microbes. Nobody ...

ADH activity is common in plants, but in the course of studying the shikimate pathway the Maeda lab discovered that the DNA sequences coding for ADH in some flowering plants were significantly ...

MADISON, Wis. -- As you bite into your next peanut butter and jelly sandwich, chew on this: The peanut you're eating has a secret. It's a subtle one. The peanut and its kin -- legumes -- have not one, ...