Sentences with phrase «dying plant tissue»
«It's just a really common fungus in the environment that mostly lives on dead and dying plant tissue,» Leonard says.
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While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in plants involving apoptosis, where «the plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says.
They prefer stressed or dying trees, which have more ethanol — an alcohol that's produced naturally by the plant — flowing through their tissues.
However, the result is always the same: The diseased tissue dies to seal - off the infected area and to prevent the pathogenic bacteria from spreading further through the plant tissue,» Bonas concludes.
While more herbaceous plants die back, drawing any energy from softer tissues above ground into their roots, only to re-sprout in the spring (such as bulbs and tuberous plants).