The Western Producer
Bacterial proteins soak plants’ cellular plumbing
Plant pathogens have become extremely efficient at infecting crops and injecting harmful proteins into cells for their own benefit. From brown spot in beans, bacterial speck in tomatoes or fire blight in fruit trees, a family of proteins called AvrE/DspE causes havoc in hundreds of crops worldwide. Now, researchers at Duke University in North Carolina...
November 16, 2023
