{"id":91990,"date":"2019-06-13T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/research-decodes-plant-defense-system-with-an-eye-on-improving-farming-and-medicine"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:06","slug":"research-decodes-plant-defense-system-with-an-eye-on-improving-farming-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/research-decodes-plant-defense-system-with-an-eye-on-improving-farming-and-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-decodes-plant-defense-system-with-an-eye-on-improving-farming-and-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UMBC\u2019s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant\u2019s circadian rhythm (essentially, an internal clock) and its ability to fend off diseases and pests. The findings were 10 years in the making and published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> this week. The results could eventually lead to plants that are more resistant to disease-causing pathogens and better treatment for human diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s quite cool,\u201d Lu says, \u201cbecause, in both <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plants<\/a> and animals, people are beginning to study the crosstalk between the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/circadian\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">circadian<\/a> clock and the immunity system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-decodes-defense-eye-farming-medicine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMBC\u2019s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant\u2019s circadian rhythm (essentially, an internal clock) and its ability to fend off diseases and pests. The findings were 10 years in the making and published in Nature Communications this week. The results could eventually lead to plants that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91990","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}