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Eavesdropping vs conscious warning

Plants warn neighbouring plants against attach, don’t they? A new study shows that plants might not be as altruistic as we think.

Flexible cell walls

A new study shows that cell wall flexibility determines how plant cells react to damaged neighbours.

New state of immunity

A new study shows that during an infection plant cells can reprogram themselves into immune cells

Extra auxin against stress Microbes like, Pseudomonas, give plants a helping hand in stress situations. For a long time it was unknown how they do this. Now a team of international researchers show in Microbial Biotechnology how Pseudomonas this does. Plants colonised by beneficial microbes perform better than their non-colonised neighbours in stress situations. TheContinue reading “Extra auxin against stress”