Do Plants Have an Immune System?
Posted in Plant Defense on Dec 10th, 2011
It Depends on How You Define “Immune System” Plants get sick. That is, they can be infected by pathogens. But after hundreds of millions of years of pathogen attacks, plants are still here. So, they must have ways to get well after being sick. Plants can defend themselves against disease-causing organisms (pathogens) such as viruses, [...]
