MSU Scientists Discover Ancient Enzymes Evolve New Tricks
August 01, 2020
August 01, 2020
EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 1 -- Michigan State University issued the following news release:
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 trainee . . .
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 trainee . . .