A Tale of Two Enzymes: MSU Scientists Discover Ancient Enzymes Evolve New Tricks
July 29, 2020
July 29, 2020
EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 29 -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news:
Plants, herbivores and pathogens are locked in a war for survival that is hundreds of millions of years old. Rooted in place and with no way to run, plants evolved complex, chemical-producing machinery in their cells to defend against their ambulate adversaries.
In a paper recently published in the journal eLife, Pengxiang Fan, MSU postdoctoral train . . .
Plants, herbivores and pathogens are locked in a war for survival that is hundreds of millions of years old. Rooted in place and with no way to run, plants evolved complex, chemical-producing machinery in their cells to defend against their ambulate adversaries.
In a paper recently published in the journal eLife, Pengxiang Fan, MSU postdoctoral train . . .