Plants regularly have unprotected sex. How do they avoid unwanted infections?
Tag - microbes
Alun Salt
StomaToy — Learning Plant Defence Through Play
Stomata are necessary for photosynthesis, but they're also access points for pathogens. How do plants defend them?
Rucha Karnik
Origins and domestication of the olive
The olive, Olea europaea (Oleaceae), is an iconic species in Mediterranean agriculture yet its origin is complex. Besnard et al. review the literature on the timeline of Mediterranean olive evolution and discuss the...
botanyone
What is it that plant pathogens are attacking?
It might seem obvious that plant pathogens attack plants, but a new paper in Molecular Plant Pathology argues that we should be looking at a wider battle in the soil.
Meet the real fungi…
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money, 2016. Oxford University Press. As much as I would like to think that plants are the most important organisms on planet Earth, even I have to admit that fungi are...
Nigel Chaffey
