Postdoctoral researcher Deepak Bhandari was part of the team at Michigan State University that revealed a secret of how plants defend themselves from pathogens. Plants defend themselves against fungi, ...
Overuse of chemical pesticides has driven resistance in agricultural pests, including the adaptable two-spotted spider mite. Researchers have discovered novel elicitor proteins, Tet3 and Tet4, in mite ...
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 ...