A wild ginger has a clever trick up its sleeve to lure in pollinators. No, it’s not a sweet fragrance that fills the air, but the foul stench of rotting flesh and dung. To attract carrion-loving flies and beetles, the flowers of the plant genus Asarum brew a malodorous chemical called dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) with the help of a disulfide synthase (DSS)—an enzyme derived from another enzyme, methanethiol oxidase (MTOX), found in both animals and plants.
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