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Parasitic worms hijack key plant protein to build their nest
Author(s) -
Baral Anirban
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
physiologia plantarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.351
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1399-3054
pISSN - 0031-9317
DOI - 10.1111/ppl.12877
Subject(s) - gall , biology , key (lock) , botany , nematode , ecology
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.