Whiteflies weaponize a plant defense via horizontal gene transfer

Noah K. Whiteman; Rebecca L. Tarnopol

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.017

Whiteflies weaponize a plant defense via horizontal gene transfer

Noah K. Whiteman
, Rebecca L. Tarnopol

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Co-opting enemy weapons is a proven strategy in warfare. The war of nature is no different. In this issue of Cell, Xia and colleagues show how a major crop pest stole a plant phenolic glucoside malonyltransferase gene, allowing neutralization of a large class of plant defense compounds.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1657-1658
Number of pages	2
Journal	Cell
Volume	184
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.017
State	Published - Apr 1 2021

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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