Immunity – Plant en Zo

How plants make aspirin

In 2001 the starting point for a brassica specific pathway for salicylic acid production was found. Now not one but three research groups out of China, with some collaboration with US and Canadian researchers, found out how the rest of the plants make salicylic acid.

Autoimmune plants

Autoimmune plants By autoimmunity the immune system is turned on to quickly. Now American researchers show in Nature Plants that for some plants that show autoimmunity this is because they also react to harmless bacteria. Plants in which their immune system is activated while there are no pathogens are autoimmune. They are smaller and theirContinue reading “Autoimmune plants”