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Chitinase-assisted winner: nematodes antagonize symbiotic microbes
Jingyi Zhang1, Heng Sun2, Feng Feng1
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
Trends in Microbiology
|September 1, 2024
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Nematodes do not merely siphon off plant resources but also sabotage the plant's mutualistic relationships with beneficial microbes. Yang and colleagues elegantly elucidated this generalizable molecular antagonism, revealing how Heterodera glycines, the notorious soybean cyst nematode (SCN), suppresses beneficial microbial symbiosis through a specific chitinase, HgCht2.
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