{"id":226956,"date":"2025-12-12T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/fungal-allies-arm-plant-roots-against-disease-by-rewriting-the-rules-of-infection"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:10:40","slug":"fungal-allies-arm-plant-roots-against-disease-by-rewriting-the-rules-of-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/fungal-allies-arm-plant-roots-against-disease-by-rewriting-the-rules-of-infection","title":{"rendered":"Fungal allies arm plant roots against disease by rewriting the rules of infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fungal-allies-arm-plant-roots-against-disease-by-rewriting-the-rules-of-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell membrane at pathogen infection sites\u2014offering critical new insights into how plants coordinate defenses in complex natural environments.<\/p>\n<p>This new research reveals that the membrane interface between plant cells and invading pathogen microbes is not fixed. Instead, it can be reshaped by co-colonizing symbionts, fundamentally altering how plants interact with pathogens and potentially improving resistance to disease.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2211124725014743\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Cell Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell membrane at pathogen infection sites\u2014offering critical new insights into how plants coordinate defenses in complex natural environments. This new research reveals that the membrane interface between plant cells and invading pathogen microbes is not fixed. Instead, it can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}