At a time when we are increasingly dependent on plants for survival, funding for plant pathology is being cut. Ed Yong gives one example of a potential catastrophe, a disease that can kill cocoa en masse.
Tag - pathogens
Alun Salt
Mechanisms behind optimal defence patterns (Invited Review)
The optimal defence hypothesis (ODH) predicts that tissues that contribute most to a plant’s fitness and have the highest probability of being attacked will be the parts best defended. In general, young tissues show...
botanyone
The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology
Gary has absolutely promised me this will be the last top 10 list. We’ll see 🙂 But here it is anyway, the results of Molecular Plant Pathology’s survey of fungal pathologists which asked them to nominate the...
AJ Cann
Here we go again…
In January I wrote about Molecular Plant Pathology’s top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology. Everyone likes a good list, but I had no idea it would be so controversial. Well now they’re at it...
Reactions of Nicotiana species to inoculation with begomoviruses
The inability of begomoviruses to systemically infect several Nicotiana species is likely due to inhibition of virus movement rather than replication and provides a novel model to study virus-host interactions in...
annbot
