Fantastic story how bacteria exploit a host pathway to dissolve plant tissue and obtain nutrients 🤯
Uncovering these mechanisms about plant-pathogen interactions is so cool!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Plant cell walls harbor vast carbohydrate reserves, yet how pathogens unlock them remains unclear. We show that the citrus canker pathogen Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) mobilizes cell wall suga...