Researchers identify amino acid change that allows pathogens to jump from one plant to another
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A research team with members from the U.K., Germany and the U.S. has identified an amino acid sequence in effector proteins in two pathogens that helps explain how a firmly established pathogen can leap from one plant to another. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes genomic research they conducted on two types of well-known plant pathogens and what it revealed regarding effector proteins and their role in helping the pathogen jump from one plant species to another.