Sentences with phrase «plant pathogen called»

For example, there's a deadly plant pathogen called crown rust fungus which among grains, infects only oat crops.

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Our research enhances the traditional understanding of the plant defense system and describes a new concept describing how plants protect themselves against the pathogens that grow in the space outside plant cells (the apoplast)-- a new concept called effector - triggered defense or ETD.»

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California - Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen — called Ug99 — that was first discovered in Uganda in 1999.

All plants and animals have a built - in resistance to pathogens called innate immunity that is more basic and general than the better - known adaptive immunity that responds to specific infections or vaccines.

As a means to better understand such pathogen - plant interactions, Chory's team turned to the well - studied weed Arabidopsis thaliana and, in particular, an enzyme called SOBER1 — which had previously been reported to suppress the weed's immune response to a bacterial protein known as AvrBsT.

The machine, called a continuous cell concentration device, could make it possible to routinely analyze food or water samples to screen for pathogens within a single work shift at food processing plants.