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Pathogens attack plants like hackers, so my lab thinks about crop protection like cybersecurity

  • Written by John Herlihy, Ph.D. Student in the School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech
Plant hackers at work: microscopic oomycete spores infiltrating a plant root.John Herlihy, CC BY-ND

Plants feed us. Without them we’re goners. Through thousands of years of genetic modification by selective breeding, humans have developed the crops that keep us alive. We have large kernels of grains, plump fruits and nutritious, toxin-free...

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