Parasitic worms hijack key plant protein to build their nest

Abstract

Parasitic nematode worms infect a variety of crop plants worldwide. Roots infected by these worms start to look rather unsavory-with knot like tumors (galls) developing all over them. At the core of each gall, a worm matures and lays its eggs. Olmo et al. (2018) looked into the developmental reprogramming that leads to gall formation and found an Arabidopsis protein to be a necessary component in this process.

Published in

Physiologia Plantarum
2019, volume: 165, number: 1, pages: 2-3
Publisher: WILEY

SLU Authors

• Baral, Anirban

  • Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Molecular Biology
Ecology
Biochemistry

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.12877

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/98457