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 ...

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 ...

Nanoplastics are everywhere. These fragments are so tiny they can accumulate on bacteria and be taken up by plant roots; they ...

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 ...

To tackle threats to global food security, symbiologists need to understand the natural balance between plants, pathogens and their environment, says Ken Shirasu Containing plant pathogens by ...

“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 ...

A new study led by Cornell University is the first to analyze plant spore dispersion at its source, where rain droplets shake flexible leaves to initially disperse pathogens. When raindrops hit a ...