Pathogen virulence proteins suppress plant immunity
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 00:22
in Biology & Nature
Blacksburg, Va. – Researchers from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and their colleagues have identified a key function of a large family of virulence proteins that play an important role in the production of infectious disease by the plant pathogen Phytophthora sojae.
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