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Ep. 424 - Uncovering the Mysteries of Galls

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Evolution of Goal Formation

When you look at a goal, all of those wild formations and colors, that's the arthropod, we'll say, or fungus doing it. That is not a reaction by the plant per se, it is a reaction that is being induced by the whatever's causing it. The genes that are expressed that generate this phenotype, ultimately are the plant gene. But originally, the gene controlling the host gene expression are the parasite genes.

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