Six enzymes made tobacco build a wolfsbane molecule

Make an imaginary pack shot: a product that does not exist, packaged and photographed as though it sits on a real shelf. One still image, 2:3 tall portrait, briefed for a GPT Image 2 class model, whose real ratio list is 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 3:2 and 2:3. The discipline of this family is total commitment to the packaging as a real object, with real print, real material and real wear, so the joke lands as craft rather than as a caption. FACT (locked, build on it, do not re-research): researchers at Michigan State University and the Czech Academy of Sciences worked out how two famously poisonous plants, wolfsbane and larkspur, build a complex compound called atisinium, which belongs to a family of molecules called diterpenoid alkaloids. They searched across several species of larkspur and wolfsbane, tracking thousands of individual genes to see which ones switched on in which plant tissues and when. That identified six enzymes. Six is the number: six enzymes, working in order, that fold the compound into its complicated final shape and add a nitrogen atom from an unexpected source. The team then put those genes into tobacco plants, which produced the compound, so the tobacco plant acted as a ready-made biofactory for a molecule it does not normally make. Both plants are highly toxic. The work was covered on the science desks at the end of July 2026. Use this exactly and leave out anything we have not locked. SCOPE, and it is strict, so read the whole block. Atisinium is NOT a medicine. Nothing here is a drug, a treatment, a cure or a product you can buy, and nothing is approved for anything. Do not print anything about medicinal use, past or future. Do not name a disease. Do not draw a pill, a capsule, a tablet, a syringe, a blister pack, a prescription label or a pharmacy. Do not print a yield, a purity, a percentage, a dose, a price, a barcode, a journal name or a publication date, because none is locked. Do not print a chemical structure, because you cannot verify it and a wrong one is a brand wound. Do not use any real company, existing brand, real trademark or institutional name; an obviously fictional grower or trial name is fine and probably necessary, so keep it unremarkable and unbranded looking. Do not render any institutional crest, logo, seal or wordmark, and do not print any named researcher's name or likeness on the piece. SAFETY, and this is the line the piece has to hold. Wolfsbane is one of the most poisonous garden plants there is. Nothing on this piece may read as an invitation to eat, drink, brew or handle anything. Whatever format you choose, it carries NO sowing instructions, NO germination times, NO handling advice and NO quantity of any kind. It is a research trial object, not a retail item, and it should look like one. GROUND (decide this, do not let the model default): weathered timber in flaking green paint, the side of a real potting shed, with grain, splinters, old nail holes and daylight coming from one window. The white e-commerce cutout is the default this brief FAILS on, and so are the seamless gradient studio backdrop, the dark moody apothecary shelf, and the clean pharmacy aisle. LIGHT: soft daylight from one side, the kind you get through a dusty pane, with a long soft shadow. DISTANCE: arm's length. The packet stands upright and fills most of the frame, close enough that the printing method, the paper stock and its edges are all readable. FLOOR (hard, this is the material standard): made with a real frontier image model, GPT Image 2 class or better. Flat vector, hand drawn SVG or HTML, and screenshot collage all FAIL. Stock, archive and library imagery FAILS. Text belongs to the artwork: type shares the piece's light, grain and material and reads as printed with it, never bolted on after. Submit your files individually; zipped or otherwise archived submissions will not be considered. CRAFT STANDARD (read all of it before you start). Composition: one clear focal a stranger finds in under 3 seconds, then a second layer that rewards a longer look. Legibility: this is judged first as a thumbnail on a phone, so the headline must survive at that size, and any label too small to read there should not exist. Palette: pick 2 or 3 inks and hold them. A piece with 8 colours reads as a template. Labelling: every label points at something real in the image, no floating decoration. Finish: real material behaviour carried consistently across the whole frame, including the type. DIRECTION is yours. FOCAL: the swap. A stranger has to understand, from the object alone, that an ordinary plant has been given somebody else's recipe and made it work. YOUR CALL: what the packaging actually IS. A greenhouse trial tag, a nursery pot label, a hand-stamped research envelope, a specimen sleeve or a laboratory dispatch packet are all open, and a seed packet is allowed only if it reads unmistakably as a trial object rather than as something anybody could buy or plant. Whatever you choose must carry one plain, unglamorous line that reads as a real restricted-material notice, set as ordinary printed copy rather than as a graphic warning device: not for cultivation, or research material only, or restricted, trial use only, or your own wording. Also yours: whether the six enzymes appear as printed steps on the back, whether the two source flowers appear as botanical illustration on the front, and how much of the object is text. SURPRISE ME: the obvious take caps your score, the boldest true take wins. The obvious take is a photorealistic wolfsbane flower with a caption underneath. JUDGED on wow, then subject, surprise, taste, craft, material. A pack shot a stranger believes they could pick up beats a prettier one that reads as a poster. NOT THIS: no skull and crossbones, no poison bottle, no witch, no cauldron, no glowing green liquid, no Breaking Bad styling, no laboratory glassware, no DNA helix, no gloved hand holding it. No warning triangle. No health claim of any kind. TEXT BUDGET: this family is allowed more type than most, because packaging is type, but every word must belong to the object and be legible at phone size. One headline that states the takeaway and names the subject, plus the object's own printed copy. NOTHING ABOUT HOW THE PIECE WAS MADE GOES ON THE PIECE: no process notes, no verification lines, no model or tool credit, no house credit, no timing or deadline text. Do not render this brief's section labels (FACT, SCOPE, FLOOR, GROUND, FOCAL, NOT THIS and the rest) or the NOT THIS list as type on the piece. Credit your model in the submission text instead. DELIVER: one finished hero image at 2:3, plus concept-note.md and sources.md. The IMAGE itself must be self contained, with no URLs, QR codes or watermarks rendered on it; put your source links in sources.md. Name your model in the submission text.