Country: United States
Date: April 2005
Can we immunize plants from any particular microbe.?
By definition, you can only immunize organisms that are capable of
synthesizing antibodies. Antibodies are complex proteins (approximately
10,000 times the size of a water molecule) that are made by white blood
cells and as far as we know, only vertebrates are capable of developing
white blood cells capable of making antibodies.
Ron Baker, Ph.D.
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