Much like traffic lights, plant cells send signals to each other to perform photosynthesis to grow or fight off destructive viruses and pathogens. Plant cells produce plasmodesmata, tiny tiny tubes ...

Programmed cell death is an in-built suicide mechanism that kills infected plant tissue and fills it with toxins so the pathogen can no longer feed on it. The work appears in the advance online ...

A recent study has discovered and characterized secreted proteins from the pathogen ... the plant and insect host. Once inside the plant, these effectors can target various parts of the cell ...