5mo ago

50 shades of green

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Links or it didn't go through the peer review
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312821004728
  It's real chat.
  
  And in a generally quite good journal....
  Well, science hippies and their humour ¯(ツ)_/¯
- I mean, not that worse things haven't passed the peer review...
I'm trying to understand this figure now. So, on the right in grey is the Phytoplasma bacterium that is hitting the plant with its SAP proteins. What I don't get, if this is a fifty shades of grey analogy, then the plant must be consenting and enjoying this. But the bacterium is a parasite damaging the plant and even apparently benefitting other parasites. This doesn't make sense!!