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Agent that triggers immune response in plants is uncovered

10-04-2007 · EurekAlert!

Rsearchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research on the Cornell campus have identified how plants signal that they have been attacked in order to trigger a plantwide resistance.

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