image: Transgenic late blight-resistant Desiree potato plants carrying Rpi-vnt1 (left) cloned from a wild potato relative, and susceptible non transgenic Desiree plants (right) in a field trial in Norwich, UK, August 2012. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 16 August, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jeffery Dangl at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., and colleagues was titled, "Pivoting the Plant Immune System from Dissection to Deployment." view more
Credit: [Images courtesy of Jonathan D.G. Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory]