In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be. In the ...

A cutting-edge study offers fresh insights into how roses defend themselves against the damaging fungus Botrytis cinerea, which causes severe losses in ornamental plants. Researchers uncovered how ...

Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

In nature, plants constantly face the threat of pathogen invasion. However, their immune systems are always confronted with a fundamental challenge: they must rapidly and effectively eliminate ...

Scientists have discovered that erucamide, a plant-produced fatty acid amide, disrupts the function of the bacterial injectosome—a syringe-like nanomachine that some pathogenic bacteria use to help ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Bacterial immune systems protect against viral invaders called phages by precisely targeting specific phage genetic sequences ...