Open AccessGaming the System: How Hungry Nematodes Get Plants to Produce Feeding Sites for Them
Author(s) -
Jennifer Lockhart
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.15.00129
Subject(s) - heterodera schachtii , biology , syncytium , nematode , sugar beet , multinucleate , agronomy , botany , ecology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology
A hungry little sugar beet nematode ( Heterodera schachtii ) slithers in the soil looking for food. The only way it can eat is to force its way into the root of a nearby susceptible plant (such as Arabidopsis thaliana ) and coax it into forming a syncytium. This enlarged, multinucleate feeding site
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