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Pathogens and Host: The Dance is the Same, the Couples are Different
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... James Cooke * Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside CA 92521; "Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, LA Y47ZO; Repayment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 021 15; §Depa~ment of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; and Departments of Plant Pathology and Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State U n iversity, Pu I I ma n, WA 991 64 History was made December 9-11, 1999, at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA with the National Academy of Sciences colloquium "Virulence and Defense in Host-Pathogen Interactions: Common Features Between Plants and Animals." This was the first colloquium dedicated to the discussion of virulence mechanisms shared by plant and animal pathogens and defense mechanisms shared by plants and animals.
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... tor functions. Such technical advances and the conceptual realization of evolutionary commonalities have put scientists interested in diseases of plants and animals on a solid footing for future manipulation of the respective defense responses to minimize the threat of diseases.


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