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.
植物變殭屍？細菌的把戲
Pansci,
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。
Bacterial tricks for turning plants into zombies
Nature,
Microbe deploys proteins that manipulate both the plant it infects and the insects that spread it.