Gene expression does change 48 hours after infecting the plant as the pathogen starts to acquire the resources of the plant cell so that it can grow and reproduce. But it's that narrow suite of genes ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are piecing together clues about how a global pest hacks the immune systems of soybeans. Soybean rust fungus poses one of the biggest threats to soybean ...

What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common? They are all susceptible to parasitic rust diseases caused by fungi. Plant rust disease can easily be spotted by the ...

An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich and the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed an artificial ...