SCORE was discovered in the pomelo (IMAGE)
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The ancient immune receptor SCORE was discovered in the pomelo fruit, but over 60 orthologs were subsequently found in other plant orders and families. Synthetic SCOREs engineered with subtle variations predictably reacted to bacteria that pomelo SCORE cannot recognize. Engineering custom SCOREs could therefore be a powerful way to boost crop immunity to new pathogens.
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By Ivar Leidus - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98324833
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