Goldsbrough and his Australian collaborators described a mutant strain of Arabidopsis thaliana (a plant in the mustard family, often used in laboratory testing) that can't defend itself against ...

Engineers at Princeton showed that some types of soil bacteria can influence a plant’s balance of growth and defense. The bacteria produce an enzyme that can lower a plant’s immune activity and allow ...

But the mustard plant, which is part of the Brassicaceae family, is a relatively easy crop to produce. It requires little more than regular sun; fertile, loamy soil; and growing season ...

Mustard is a must in my spice box. It is one of the world's oldest savoury spices which packs a punch of probiotics into our ...

The researchers grew seedlings of Arabidopsis-- a small plant in the mustard family that's commonly used in plant research -- from a line that was engineered to produce high levels of flagellin ...

The researchers grew seedlings of Arabidopsis—a small plant in the mustard family that's commonly used in plant research—from a line that was engineered to produce high levels of flagellin ...