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Ginkgo’s Extreme Longevity Credited to Immune System
Ginkgo’s Extreme Longevity Credited to Immune System
Genes related to the immune system stay active throughout the tree’s life.
Ginkgo’s Extreme Longevity Credited to Immune System
Ginkgo’s Extreme Longevity Credited to Immune System

Genes related to the immune system stay active throughout the tree’s life.

Genes related to the immune system stay active throughout the tree’s life.

plant biology, immunology

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Infographic: Plants Deploy Exosomes to Stop Alien Invaders
Amanda Keener | Feb 1, 2019 | 2 min read
A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.
Exosomes Make Their Debut in Plant Research
Amanda Keener | Feb 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.
Researchers Learn from Plant Viruses to Protect Crops
Claire Asher | Feb 1, 2018 | 10+ min read
Plants are locked in an ancient arms race with hostile viruses, but genome editing is giving crops the upper hand.
How Viruses Attack Plants
Claire Asher | Jan 31, 2018 | 1 min read
Viruses are incapable of reproducing without the help of a host, whose cells copy their genetic material and fabricate the building blocks of new virus particles.
Premature Assault?
Jef Akst | Feb 9, 2016 | 1 min read
Plants may trick bacteria into attacking before the microbial population reaches a critical size, allowing the plants to successfully defend the weak invasion.
Fungal Security Force
Karen Zusi | Feb 1, 2016 | 3 min read
In yew trees, Taxol-producing fungi function as an immune system to ward off pathogens.
Holding Their Ground
Amanda B. Keener | Feb 1, 2016 | 10+ min read
To protect the global food supply, scientists want to understand—and enhance—plants’ natural resistance to pathogens.
Plant Immunity
Amanda B. Keener | Jan 31, 2016 | 1 min read
How plants fight off pathogens
New Immunity
Kerry Grens | Jun 1, 2015 | 2 min read
A scaffolding protein forms the hub of a newly identified immune pathway in plants.
Memory Tools for Plants
Amy Coombs | Jun 4, 2012 | 2 min read
How plants pass defenses to offspring through a complex molecular network
Keeping immunity in check
Megan Scudellari | Jun 16, 2011 | 2 min read
Two newly discovered proteins that act as brakes to slow a plant's immune response after infection may provide clues to autoimmune treatments.
Family Affair
Megan Scudellari | Apr 1, 2011 | 3 min read
In discovering their shared ancestry, a distantly related animal geneticist and plant pathologist find a common thread in their work on immune receptors.
Epigenetics—A Primer
Stefan Kubicek | Mar 1, 2011 | 1 min read
There are many ways that epigenetic effects regulate the activation or repression of genes. Here are a few molecular tricks cells use to read off the right genetic program.
Epigenetics—A Primer
Stefan Kubicek | Mar 1, 2011 | 1 min read
Epigenetic events regulate the activities of genes without changing the DNA sequence. Different genes are expressed depending on the methyl-marks attached to DNA itself and by changes in the structure and/or composition of chromatin. 
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