Why Some Pathogens Simply Can't Live Without Their Plants (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Why Some Pathogens Simply Can't Live Without Their Plants (1 of 6)

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The heart of the matter. The powdery mildew haustorium is the intracellular feeding structure devoted to nutrient up-take and subversion of host plant immunity. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Dec. 10, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Pietro D. Spanu at Imperial College London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism."

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