Plant-pathogen interactions: The need to evolve to stay the same

Plants and microorganisms have a long-standing relationship involving mutual and continuous adaptations. A new study shows that several molecular tools plants use to recognize their pathogens were already present when plants colonized the land.

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Plants and microorganisms have a long-standing relationship, and it has been discovered that plants had molecular tools to recognize pathogens even before they colonized the land.