Mulberries: Slow Trees, Fast Antioxidant Engines
A mulberry tree can spend long years building wood, yet once it fruits it behaves like a high‑throughput antioxidant plant. Its canopy captures solar energy through photosynthesis, channels glucose into the berries, and rapidly converts that sugar into dense packages of polyphenols and anthocyanins rather than simple starch storage.Inside each ripening berry, primary metabolism and the shikimate p...More
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