How invading pathogens switch off plant cells' defenses

PHYSorg
May 31, 2022, 12:41 pm224 pts
Many disease-causing bacteria are able to inhibit the defense mechanisms in plants and thus escape dissolution by the plant cell, a process known as xenophagy. Animal and human cells have a similar mechanism whereby the cell's defenses "eat" invading bacteria—yet some bacteria can inhibit the process. An…

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