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SUMMARY:Tea Club Seminar - Sophien Kamoun “How to trick a plant pathogen
 ” - Sophien Kamoun
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DESCRIPTION:Plants can get sick too. In fact\, they get infected by all ty
 pes of microbes and little critters. But plants have evolved an effective 
 immune system to fight off pathogen invasion. Amazingly\, nearly every sin
 gle plant cell is able to protect itself and its neighbours against infect
 ions. The plant immune system gets switched on when one of its many immune
  receptors matches a ligand in the pathogen. As a consequence of a long ev
 olutionary history of fighting off pathogens\, immune receptors are now en
 coded by hundreds of genes that populate the majority of plant genomes. Un
 derstanding how the plant immune system functions and how it has evolved c
 an give invaluable insights that would benefit modern agriculture and help
  breeding disease-resistant crops.
LOCATION:Jean Thomas Lecture theatre\, Sanger Building\, Tennis Court Road
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