Plant stress response - no solo for RNA, small proteins steal the show (Dance Your PhD 2014) from belly dance Watch Video
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Description: Attack! That is what fungi do when they meet a lovely, happy plant. Biotic stressors (f.e. fungal diseases) and abiotic stressors (f.e. excess light) cause damage to plants. This leads to huge yield losses in crops all over the world.nnDefend! That is what plants must do to avoid as much stress as possible. Numerous physical and chemical factors inside the plant are involved in this battle (though, give the poor fungus some credit for his great ‘Matrix move’ in the battle scene). nnLet’s z