Sentences with phrase «against pathogen attack»

These proteins are involved in plant stress responses in general, particularly in defense against pathogen attack.

Fungi and bacteria produce these compounds to give them a survival advantage, for example to defend against pathogen attack and secure resources in the environment.

She became a professor at Cornell University in 2003 and teaches a class on international agriculture and rural development, while focusing her research on understanding how plants defend themselves against pathogen attack.

Not exact matches

The researchers studied two types of cells called effector T cells, which activate the immune system to defend our body against different pathogens, and regulatory T cells, which help control the immune system and prevent it from attacking healthy parts of its environment.

For example, if a holobiont is attacked by a pathogen that the host can not defend against, another symbiont may fulfill the job by manufacturing a toxin that can kill the invader.

The idea behind a vaccine is simple: by exposing the immune system to a tell - tale piece of pathogen, the immune system is alerted to danger and mounts a specific attack against invaders that have this trait.

LA JOLLA, CA — When the body is under attack from pathogens, the immune system marshals a diverse collection of immune cells to work together in a tightly orchestrated process and defend the host against the intruders.

Ever since Edward Jenner developed the first successful vaccine against the dreaded smallpox virus, researchers have been riveted by the interplay between the body's defense mechanisms and pathogens staging an attack.

Regardless many of the defensive mechanisms that plants have against insects and pathogens require that the plant recognize that it is being attacked.