[Rockhounds] Evolutionary origin of catnip (catmint)

[Paul]

How a mint became catmint by Max Planck Society
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-mint-catmint.html

The paper is:

Lichman, B.R., Godden, G.T., Hamilton, J.P., Palmer,
L., Kamileen, M.O., Zhao, D., Vaillancourt, B., Wood,
J.C., Sun, M., Kinser, T.J. and Henry, L.K., 2020. The
evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone
in catnip. Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0721

Another article is:

How catnip makes the chemical that causes cats to
go crazy by John Innes Centre
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-catnip-chemical-cats-crazy.html

The paper is:

Lichman, B.R., Kamileen, M.O., Titchiner, G.R., Saalbach,
G., Stevenson, C.E., Lawson, D.M. and O’Connor, S.E.,
2019. Uncoupled activation and cyclization in catmint
reductive terpenoid biosynthesis. Nature chemical biology,
15(1), pp.71-79.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-018-0185-2

Yours,

Paul H.