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Plant immunity

Helping plants to fight back

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 8, page 313 (2010)Cite this article

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A new report in Nature Biotechnology shows that a pattern recognition receptor (PRR) can be transferred between two plant families, conferring broad-spectrum bacterial resistance.

a pattern recognition receptor (PRR) can be transferred between two plant families, conferring broad-spectrum bacterial resistance.

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  1. Lacombe, S. et al. Interfamily transfer of a plant pattern-recognition receptor confers broad-spectrum bacterial resistance. Nature Biotech. 14 Mar 2010 (doi: 10.1038/nbt.1613)

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  1. Sheilagh Molloy
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Molloy, S. Helping plants to fight back. Nat Rev Microbiol 8, 313 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2358

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