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09/25/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Plants have sophisticated defense systems: They can share proteins, bait and trap pathogens

New research has revealed that specific plant proteins can identify signals linked to disease-causing agents using “baits” and trap them before they can affect a plant. The study, published in Genome Biology, looked at how “bait genes” are distributed in various wild and domestic grasses, as well as how they respond to protect the plant against a pathogen attack. […]

07/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Plant cells that enable photosynthesis found to also play a role in plant self defense

Your biology teacher would tell you that chloroplasts are the parts of plant cells that turn sunlight into food via photosynthesis. However, chloroplasts also pull double duty by warning the plant’s nucleus about a pathogenic infection or an environmental stressor, reported a NewsWise article. This insight comes from a collaborative study between the University of Delaware (UD) and the University of […]

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