Science news articles about 'plant defences'

... -known punch/counterpunch strategy in the ongoing battle between disease-causing fungi and crop plants, scientists in Canada are reporting development of a new class of 'green' fungicides that could ...

Why do some plants defend themselves from insect attacks better than others? New evidence shows that the difference might be due to whether they're getting any plant love...

... metabolic 'master switch' jasmonic acid. Both signal herbivory in leaves and shoots of plants and activate the plants' defence reaction against caterpillars. Cis-OPDA, when reaching the haemolymph of ...

... led by Dr. Txema Becerril – are studying the plants' defence mechanisms in order to predict damage ... ingest vegetables in order to obtain antioxidants (from plants). Besides studying the VAZ cycle, Mr ...

... of Antwerp, showed changes in the concentration of glucosinolates, a family of compounds involved in plant defences against herbivores, in oilseed rape plants. Such changes could influence crop ...

... technology to study protein-protein interactions provides an unparalleled opportunity to investigate how plant defences are suppressed by invading microbes. Within these effector proteins, Professor ...