How plants fight infections

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have identified the complex way that plant bacteria fight off infections from viruses known as phages. A protein in the bacteria calls another protein to destroy a molecule inside itself that the phage needs to replicate. The cell dies but it stops the infection.

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacteria-and-plants-fight-alike

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