The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the ...

Ants secrete antibiotic substances and have a close relationship with bacteria that can combat various diseases according to ...

The Forest and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria is leading research into plant pathogens and ... greatest assets is our bio-control facility for tackling ...

has emphasized elucidating how these pathogens infect plants, the biochemical and structural changes that occur in the host as a result of infection, and establishing strategies for disease control.

Plant immunity is the inherent or induced capacity of plants to withstand or ward off biological attack by pathogens. Molecules released from pathogens are recognised by plant cell surface ...