<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/link-2025-06-some-plants-make-their-own-pesticide.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>Some plants make their own pesticide, but at what cost to the atmosphere?</title><description><span>A natural alternative to pesticides may be hiding in a misunderstood plant compound — but it could come at an environmental cost.</span></description><pubDate>06/13/2025</pubDate><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2025/06-sharkey.png" alt="A graduate student and a professor put a soybean leaf in a piece of equipment."/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/some-plants-make-their-own-pesticide-but-at-what-cost-to-the-atmosphere</externalNewsArticleLink><categories>Climate and Sustainability,Discovery Science,Plant Sciences</categories><broadcast>bmb,prl,plantresilience</broadcast></item>