Giving plants animal antibodies to help them ward off diseases
Published Date: 3/3/2023
Source: phys.org
A team of biotechnology researchers working at the University of East Anglia has developed a new way to increase disease resistance in plants—give them animal antibodies. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes engineering llama and alpaca antibodies in a way that allowed them to fight a type of fungus in plants.