Lucía Borniego (@luciaborniego.bsky.social)

Scientists discovered that plants can send RNA to their leaf surfaces, possibly helping control fungal infections even before the fungus breaches the plant. This suggests plants might use RNA to manage microbes living on their leaves, with a range of RNA types involved, particularly tRNAs.

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Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409090121