Biotechnology, Dodder, General Botany, Gunjune Kim, James Westwood, mRNA, Parasite Host Plant Interaction Cuscuta, Science
Are Dodder Plants (Cuscuta) The Future Tool For Gene Transfer?
Tweet Scientists from Virginia Tech and Pennsylvania State University have discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. Jim Westwood, a professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, throws open the…