Wilko Punt on stage at the Botanik Tagung in Halle. The Screen shows the life cycle of Verticillium dahliae and a tomato plant.

Wilko Punt from @teamthomma.bsky.social at Uni Cologne tells us about how #tomato plants recruit Pseudomonas bacteria to fight a proxy war against the fungal pathogen #Verticillium dahliae.

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