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How do plants protect themselves from diseases?

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How do plants protect themselves from diseases? Published: It is estimated that plant diseases cost the global economy roughly $220 billion each year. Understanding how plants fight pathogens is, therefore, crucial to protecting crops and combatting food insecurity.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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How do bacteria help and harm crops? However, some bacteria cause diseases that can drastically reduce rice harvests, potentially leading to famine. Meanwhile, other bacteria are beneficial for soybean plants, as they help produce important nutrients. How do soybean and rice interact with microbes?

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. This guest speaker was talking about how to run group interviews, and she, a white woman, was imparting what she learned from years of research with various U.S.

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Guarding cells – the role of stomata against pathogens

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When plants are under attack from pathogens , they use tiny pores called stomata as their first line of defen s e. Plants and pathogens. Microbes are tiny organisms that can be found nearly everywhere – from ocean floors to the soil under your feet. They do a range of tasks that make life possible.

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What’s So Wild About Wildfire?

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Fire scientists describe fire as a chemical reaction made from three things, called the “fire triangle”: fuel, heat, and oxygen. Some trees—like giant sequoias—actually need the heat from fire to open cones that are glued shut. Insects and disease kill the weak trees. So, what is it? Table of Contents.

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How Do Our Bodies Protect Us From Dangerous Viruses?Viruses need to infect cells and multiply. But our bodies have special ways to stop a virus in its tracks!

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Why do viruses infect people? Viruses can find ways to get into those cells and use them as factories to make more copies of themselves. Some need more support from their hosts than others. Viruses infect humans, animals, and even plants! What barriers do our bodies use to protect us from viruses?

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An age-old question

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Dr Hua Bai from Iowa State University in the US is studying a process in our cells that is thought to contribute to ageing. Well, from the day we are born until the day we die, all of us are getting older. To slow down the process of ageing, we first need to understand how the process works by answering the question: Why do we age?

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