the Fulbright Us Student Program,which is sponsored by The US Department of State and the German-American Fulbright Commission.We thank Prof.M.Court for UGT nomenclature assignment.N.benthamiana and green unripe and purple ripe S.nigrum berries used in the main and supplementary figures were generated in BioRender.We kindly acknowledge the Max Planck Society and the European Research Council(788301)for funding.
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