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Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves - Futurism

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves - Futurism

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves - Futurism
Feb 07, 2023 54 secs

Meet: "Keanumycins," a new pesticide invented and named by a team of researchers at the Bio Pilot Plant at Germany's Leibniz-HKI, who published a study on the killer biochemical discovery in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The molecules "kill so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves," German researcher Sebastian Götze, lead author of the study, said in a press release, "because he, too, is extremely deadly in his roles."

Keanumycins, crafted from bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, target a fungal plant pest dubbed Botrytis cinerea, which causes a gray mold rot that destroys harvests.

Botrytis cinerea infects over 200 fruit and vegetable species, and is also one of many problem fungi that have become increasingly resistant to existing chemical pesticides as well as — perhaps most ominously — pharmaceuticals.

"Many human-pathogenic fungi are now resistant to antimycotics (antifungal) – partly because they are used in large quantities in agricultural fields," Götze added in the statement.

There is, for example, a in South Africa dubbed the Conobregma bradpitti, while an entire genus of genderfluid ferns is named after pop icon Lady Gaga.

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