She Brought ‘Green’ Science to UAB: Karolina Mukhtar and Plant Immunology

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The innate immune systems of plants and plant pathogens are in a biological arms race, and if plants lose, food sources may diminish. Mukhtar probes the genetics and molecular mechanisms of plant immunity.

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