A smart one-two reaction After recognition of pathogens by plants, often a lot of things simultaneously takes place. Everything to react as soon as possible. Now American and Dutch researchers show that plants initiate the first response to intrudes using a smart one-two like reaction. An alarm is useful to be notified when something goesContinue reading “A smart one-two reaction”
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Helping hand
Helping hand Plants do better when they get help from in the soil living microbes. New research from Dutch, Belgian and Swiss researchers shows that this effect is increased when these individual microbes also help each other. The soil is full of microbes, fungi and bacteria. Lost of these microbes have a positive effect onContinue reading “Helping hand”
Fixed place
Fixed place In the busy chloroplasts of a plant it is essential that starch has its own place to prevent it blocking the way. Now Swiss researchers show in PNAS that the protein MFP1 is picking the spot. Starch is made by plants both to survive long and short periods or scarcity. While for theContinue reading “Fixed place”
Layer against drought
An extra layer against drought The suberin is a fatty layer between the cell membrane and the cell wall. In roots plants develop this layer either in the outermost or second outermost cell layer. American researchers now show in Nature Plants that in tomato plants this layer helps the plants to deal with drought. TheContinue reading “Layer against drought”
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