Plant immunity depends on cell-autonomous events that are related to animal innate immunity, but plants have a greatly expanded recognition repertoire to compensate for their lack of an adaptive ...

Their theoretical framework, they say, could help analyze other interactions between species to reveal pathogen contact points. How are proteins in the cells of a flowering plant similar to social ...

How exactly bacterial pathogens cause diseases in plants remains a mystery and continues to frustrate scientists working to solve this problem. Now Wenbo Ma, a young plant pathologist at the ...

To achieve that, large-scale sequencing of genomes now provides unprecedented access to the networks that underlie plant-pathogen interactions. Wise said it’s like using an online app to find a ...

Answers to questions like these will help unravel host-pathogen/pest interactions, not just in plants but also in people. Ultimately, this knowledge could contribute to the design of precision ...

Graduate students may specialize in the physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of plant pathogens or host-pathogen interactions; the biology and ecology of plant pathogens; epidemiology and ...

These plant pathogens cause diseases that have changed world history and still affect us today. These pathogens are plant hackers. Just like computer hackers, they’re specialized infiltrators ...

Their models can accurately predict these interactions and can help to design microbiomes ... which helps digest our food and protect us against pathogens. Plants are also host to microbial ...

“This paper, I would argue, is a very important and valuable contribution to … understanding the interaction between crops and their pathogens.” Plant diseases are one of the leading causes ...