Plant Immunity May Benefit Human Medicine

Brachypodium distachyon, a model genomic organism, has also been studied metabolomically for its reactions to specific stimuli such as fungal infection or proximity to other botanical organisms. Coincidentally, the metabolic output in response to pathogenic fungi produces compounds (phospholipids) valuable in treating invasive fungal infections in humans. This leads to general hypothesis that specific stressing of plants may produce compounds of value for the treat- ment resulting from homologous or identical stressors, and so constitute a novel putative approach for pharmaceutical dis- covery and development. Some specific examples and suggestions for future study are considered.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  The Open Systems Biology Journal

• Publication date

  2009-04-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2174/1876392800902010018
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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