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In 2025, group of scientists successfully identified and tested synthetic molecular "blueprints" capable of triggering the formation of complex plant galls without the presence of a living inducer (those insects and bacterias).

References

• Tomoko Hirano, Tomoaki Sakamoto, Seisuke Kimura, Takumi Nakayama, Mitsuhiko P Sato, Kenta Shirasawa, Masa H Sato, CAP peptides artificially induce insect-gall-like growth in different plant species, Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 66, Issue 8, August 2025, Pages 1155–1168, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf061