Keeping up with the plant killers
Medium US,
I gave this talk in 2020, the International Year of Plant Health, to discuss the pathogens that infect our crop plants.
I gave this talk in 2020, the International Year of Plant Health, to discuss the pathogens that infect our crop plants.
當植物被稱作植物菌植體(phytoplasmas)的寄生細菌感染後,植物的花朵會長成葉狀的幼芽,花瓣會變成綠色,然後發育成如同「巫婆掃把(witches’ brooms)」般蓬亂的枝芽。這種轉型讓不但植物不孕,還會吸引吸食植物汁液的昆蟲,並將菌體傳播出去。
Microbe deploys proteins that manipulate both the plant it infects and the insects that spread it.