Sentences with phrase «defense against fungi»

Onions produce various sulfur - containing compounds (such as cysteine sulfoxide), probably for defense against fungi and insects, that, together with their breakdown products, produce their distinctive odor, flavor, and lachrymatory (tear - stimulating) properties (Brewster 1994).

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Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus, which destroys enough rice to feed an estimated 60 million people each year.

Previously, Bais and his research team isolated Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105, a bacterium that lives in the soil around the roots of rice plants and found that this beneficial microbe can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus.

It seems most important for beewolves to have a defense which is efficient against a broad and constantly changing spectrum of mold fungi.

This makes garlic a surprisingly good defense against harmful organisms like bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungus.