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Soil bacteria rely on double protection against plant defense substances

By | April 16, 2025

A team from Ruhr University Bochum and the Jülich Research Centre has investigated how plant-damaging bacteria defend themselves against their host's defense mechanisms. The researchers showed that the widespread plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens possesses two sensors that allow it to detect reactive oxygen species. Plants release these substances as a defense mechanism, thereby damaging DNA, lipids, and proteins… Read more »