Evolution of plant pathogenic bacteria to defeat host resistance

Project specs

Format

2D

Category

Biology

Contact

Helen Neale and Dawn Arnold

Country

UK

Funding agency

UWE, BBSRC, Oxford University, Reading University

Length

1:30

Summary

A 90 second educational animation aimed at Secondary School students to show how plant disease-causing microorganisms (pathogens) and the plants they infect are engaged in an ongoing arms race of subterfuge and surveillance.

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