The plant group known as bromeliads famously includes the commercially important pineapple. However, that ground-growing member of the Bromeliaceae (the more formal name for the pineapple family of flowering plants) is...
Tag - infection
Nigel Chaffey
Phytopathological future for plasma
The fight against pathogens in plants is moving to less familiar states of matter.
Deadly competition between parasites
There’s an interesting paper out in Nature Communications: Coinfection alters population dynamics of infectious disease. The paper is the study of Plantago lanceolata a common weed where I live in the UK...
Alun Salt
Infection processes of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Brassica napus
Very few studies have investigated interactions at the plant surface and cellular levels for infection of Brassica napus by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Garg et al. demonstrate for the first time that resistance results...
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