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PLANT IMMUNITY

Different threats, same response

Plants can experience a range of challenges, from osmotic stress to pathogen attack, requiring different types of responses. Despite this variety, two recent studies of plant transcriptomes reveal a surprising commonality in the genes induced by stress.

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Fig. 1: Global transcriptome analysis reveals partially overlapping core gene sets induced in response to diverse stimuli.

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Cole, B.J., Tringe, S.G. Different threats, same response. Nat. Plants 7, 544–545 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00915-z

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