Plant Defense and Disease Resistance!

Have you ever nursed a sick plant back to health? What about throwing away a sick plant? This video goes into how the plant immune system works to keep the plants in your life happy and healthy!

I also chat about how the little quirks of the plant immune system can be used to engineer a better disease resistant plant!



Discussion on the plant immune system and creating a disease-resistant plant from Xu et al. “Global translational reprogramming is a fundamental layer of immune regulation in plants” Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22371 and Xu et al. “uORF-mediated translation allows engineered plant disease resistance without fitness costs” Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22372


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"Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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