Plants have an immune system… and it’s complicated
Channel: Science Animated
Date: 2018-06-21

Just like humans, plants have an immune system that they use to fend off pathogens and pests. Research involving plant immunity was guided by Harold Flor’s influential "gene-for-gene" model but this model is now supplanted by a more complex view of pant immunity. Disease resistance genes appear to work together in intricate networks that enable plants to detect and resist parasites more effectively. An in-depth understanding of the immune system can help us breed disease resistant crops. http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aat2623
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