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Researchers of the Max-Planck Society set out to protect plants from damaging UV-B radiation. They began by assessing levels of various phenylpropanoids in the flowers of 72 sets of Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) ecotypes using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.