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Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor (OA)
https://botany.fyi/54tloa
Gómez De La Cruz et al report that a plant NLR has evolved the capacity to bind to a pathogen effector by acting as a molecular mimic of a virulence target of the effector, thereby triggering an immune response.
#Botany #PlantScience
Wild orangutan treats wound w. pain-relieving plant
Observed applying plant w. known medicinal properties to wound, a first for a wild animal
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502113715.htm
Active self-treatment of a facial wound w. biologically active plant by male Sumatran orangutan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7
Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817
Orangutan plays doctor, heals himself
https://www.science.org/content/article/orangutan-plays-doctor-heals-himself
#primates #MedicinalPlants #injury #orangutan #botany
Wild orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal.ScienceDaily
Journal of Systematics and Evolution is on Mastodon (as I just discovered). If you're a plant scientist or just interested in #Botany and #Evolution, give it a follow!
@JSE
Boost to relieve those who live in #Planticipation!
@plantscience
One of the things I was able to do on the birdsite that there just isn't much opportunity to here is find out "current events" in carob by doing a search every week or so.
If you ever see a carob toot, please forward it to me, especially if it's not a tired carob hippie joke, but actual research or market or real life info re Ceratonia siliqua/#Carob
Please boost to get my request out there. Thanks so much! @plantscience
#Food #PlantScience #Botany
"there's endemic Mexican maize that has aerial roots that use bacterial colonies to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere."
https://plantae.org/nitrogen-fixing-corn-slime-a-mexican-maize-landrace-supports-nitrogen-fixing-microbiota-in-aerial-root-mucilage/
#Botany #Biology
Via the Planthropology podcast on the Birdsite. @Planthropology_
Nitrogen-fixing corn slime? A Mexican maize landrace supports nitrogen-fixing microbiota in aerial root mucilage | Plantae
Plants engage in intimate interactions with symbiotic microbes for the mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients. In a keystone study published in PLoS Biology, Van Deyze et al. (2018) describe the…Plantae