Black Spot, Black Death, Black Pearl: The Tales of
Bacterial Effectors.
In the second line of defense, the plant uses defense proteins inside the cell to detect
the bacterial effectors and sound the alarm.
«It is likely that rapid evolvement of new
bacterial effectors contributed to the resurgence of this disease.»
Not exact matches
Functional Analysis of
Bacterial TAL
Effectors and the Targeted Susceptibility Genes in Plants.
Over evolutionary time, the
bacterial and plant populations have engaged in an arms race, where the bacteria evolve new
effector proteins to help them sneak in, while the plant acquires new defense proteins to uncover and respond to the attack.
5/24/2007 How Plague - Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense
Effector proteins are the bad guys that help
bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system.