It doesn't cease to amaze me that it sometimes works to make a complex crop plant like the banana resistant against a dangerous pathogen - simply by introducing an Arabidopsis thaliana immunity gene such as EFR. Cool work by Leena Tripathi
from IITA Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, in cooperation with Cyril Zipfel. 👍

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.06.543870v1

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